Prehistoric Cultures -- Universitiy of Minnesota Duluth

Inca god Viracocha

Ancient Inca Civilization -- www.kidskonnect.com
conquistadors
Quechua (Kechua) languages = Inca language
Chimu
- The pre-Incan Chimu had more gold than the Mochica
Cuzco (Peru)
Machu Picchu (Peru; Inca)
- intewahutana
  - "hitching post of the sun"
  - used to calculate the equinoxes and other things
Atahualpa -- Inca emperor kidnapped by the Spaniards
The European Voyages of Exploration: The Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries -- University of Calgary
Conquistadors (Cortés, Pizarro, Orellana, Cabeza de Vaca) -- PBS

Bibliography
- Bibliography on Inca History
Books
- Inca land : explorations in the highlands of Peru, Bingham, Hiram (1922) -- The Internet Archive
- Manco, the Peruvian Chief, W.H.G. Kingston (1814-1880) -- The Internet Archive
- History of the Incas, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa -- manybooks.net

Manco Capac
first king of the Kingdom of Cusco

Inca used Quipus, a system of knots on strings,
to record information and perform mathematical calculations

Pre-Columbian Civilizations and Cultures

North America	Ancient Pueblo (Anasazi) – Fremont – Mississippian

Mesoamerica	Huastec – Izapa – Mixtec – Olmec – Pipil – Tarascan – Teotihuacán – Toltec – Totonac – Zapotec

South America	Norte Chico – Chavín – Chibcha – Chimor – Chachapoya – Huari – Moche – Nazca – Tairona – Tiwanaku


Main civilizations

	The Aztec Empire	The Maya civilization	The Inca Empire

Language	Nahuatl language	Mayan languages	Quechua
Writing	Aztec writing	Mayan writing
Religion	Aztec religion	Maya religion	Inca religion
Mythology	Aztec mythology	Maya mythology	Inca mythology
Calendar	Aztec calendar	Maya calendar
Society	Aztec society	Maya society	Inca society
Infrastructure	Chinampas	Maya architecture	Inca architecture (road system) Incan agriculture
History	Aztec history		Inca history
People	Moctezuma I Moctezuma II Cuitlahuac Cuauhtémoc	Pacal the Great Tecun Uman	Manco Capac Pachacutec Atahualpa
Conquest	Spanish conquest of Mexico (Hernán Cortés)	Spanish conquest of Yucatán (Francisco de Montejo) Spanish conquest of Guatemala (Pedro de Alvarado)	Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire (Francisco Pizarro)
See also
Indigenous peoples of the Americas Population history of American indigenous peoples Pre-Columbian art

A red-haired mummy recovered from the Nevado Ampato, Peru, in the mountains near the famous Machu Picchu mountaintop fortress. Dated at circa A.D.1400, this may even have been one of the red-haired Incas that the Spaniards reported seeing	Evidence of cranial deformation found at El Trigal
Gold and silver Inca warrior icons accented with Peruvian turquoise, spondylus, black onyx, and lapis lazuli (Victor Estrada Cervantes)