Inca

Inca is known today as an indigenous urban culture in South America. Often referred to as only the respective ruling Inca people of this culture. They ruled between the 13th and 16 Century on a far-spanning empire of over 200 ethnic groups, which exhibited a high degree of organization. At its greatest extent about (950,000 sq. km) extended its influence from the present-day Ecuador to Chile and Argentina, a region whose size is greater than the distance between the North Cape to Sicily. Developmentally, the Incas are comparable to the Bronze Age civilizations of Eurasia. The ritual, administrative and cultural center was the capital Qusqu (Cusco) in the high mountains of Peru.

Originally, the term "Inca" the name of a tribe, came to his own view of the sun god Inti and the surroundings of Cusco populated meant. He later served as a ruling clan nobility of the same theocratic empire. From it recruited the clergy also and the officers of the Inca army. Sapa Inca ( 'the only Inca ") was the title of the Inca ruler of Tawantinsuyu (Land) of the four parts, Empire of the four quarters of the world" - as the self-designation of the Empire.