(1) Quechua is a descendant of the Inca language.

(2) Pizarro defeated the might of the Inca Empire with only a few hundred men.

(3) The glorious Inca ruins are the main tourist destination in Peru.

(4) Cactus wrens and Inca doves nest in thick tangles of mesquite.

(5) The Inca Atahualpa, as we have seen, kept virgins on tap throughout the kingdom.

(6) An ancient Inca fortress city in the Andes northwest of Cuzco, Peru. Its extensive ruins, including elaborate terraces, were discovered in 1911.

(7) The royal palaces of Cusco, the Inca capital, fell swiftly to the European conquerors, and a new Spanish colonial city rose on their ruins, burying or obliterating the Inca past.

(8) The Inca scribes (known as armantus) used the quipu (knotted ropes) to record and store information about the immense holdings of the vast Inca empire.

(9) By the time the Inca king Huayna Capac took power around 1493, little seemed beyond the reach of the Inca dynasty.

(10) And between 1150 and 1300, the Inca around Cusco began to capitalize on a major warming trend in the Andes.

(11) But in the fertile, well-watered valley around Cusco, Inca farmers stood their ground.

(12) Inca mummy bundles poke up from the ground at the newly discovered historic cemetery.

(13) Inca Cola, Peru. A sickly sweet soft drink that tastes like Creaming Soda without the bubbles.

(14) The Inca Empire was discovered by a Spanish conquistador called Francisco Pizarro, accompanied by about 169 Spanish soldiers.

(15) Thousands of Inca mummies were found at an ancient cemetery under a shantytown near Lima in 2002.

(16) The wool worn by Inca kings was woven from the very soft, fine hair of the wild vicuna that is still used today.

(17) And in the Inca heartland, a small army of men and women toiled to construct a royal estate for Huayna Capac and his family.

(18) Thousands of ancient Inca mummies, some bundled together in small groups with their possessions, have been discovered beneath a shantytown near Lima, Peru.

(19) You need to be very fit to hike the Inca Trail.

(20) It is believed he was numbed by a narcotic and left to freeze as an Inca sacrifice.

(21) Guppy and Marsh, son of a multi-millionaire advertising executive, each had ￡15,000 shares in Inca.

(22) In an empire where no one was his own master except the Inca, was it socialism or a dictatorship which prevailed?

(23) On a sun-washed July afternoon, Brian Bauer, an archaeologist from the University of Illinois at Chicago, stands in the plaza of the sprawling Inca ceremonial site of Maukallacta, south of Cusco.

(24) Francisco Pizarro was a Spanish conquistador who destroyed the Inca Empire in the course of his conquest of Peru.

(25) Archaeologists say the find may solve some of the mysteries surrounding the Inca civilization.

(26) Llullaillaco is also a well-known archaeological site; the mummified remains of three Inca children, ritually sacrificed 500 years ago, were discovered on the summit in 1999.

(27) The salt plains here are a pure white expanse, surrounded by high mountains. The Inca tribes that originally in habited the areaoffer a unique cultural history.

(28) Although the citadel is located only about 50 miles from Cusco, the Inca capital, it was never found and destroyed by the Spanish, as were many other Inca sites.

(29) On the way back to the hotel we stopped at Mallorca's 3 rd biggest city, Inca.

(30) Spend the day visiting the ruins of this ancient Inca city before catching the train back to Cuzco.

(31) The museum is named after his voyage on a replica of an Inca raft, which Heyerdahl made in 1947.

(32) A ride through the sacred valley of the Inca, from Cusco to Machu Picchu, on a Peruvian Paso is a haunting, spiritual experience.

(33) He was still on the road, but now managed a group of panpipe musicians from Bolivia, even dressing up himself as an "authentic" Inca warrior to sell CDs and collect money from the audience.

(34) A traditional ancient Inca ceremony was held at the site, with dancers dressed in brightly-coloured robes and musicians playing drums and panpipes.

(35) Like many of his Inca ancestors, Juan Apaza is possessed by gold.

(36) Heavily geared towards gastronomy during the four hours it takes to climb heavenwards through the spectacular Andes mountains, this is the easy way to tackle the Inca Trail.

(37) Machu Picchu ("Old Peak") is a pre-Columbian Inca city located at 2,430 m (7,970 ft) altitude on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, near Cusco.

(38) This cave - like area contains ceremonial niches and an Inca cross carved from one wall.

(39) India and living in South America, the capital of the Inca empire Cuzco is a population of 10 million to 20 major cities.

(40) Combing rugged mountain slopes near Cusco, they are discovering thousands of previously unknown sites,[sentencedict .com] shedding new light on the origins of the Inca dynasty.

(41) The Spanish discovered the Inca during a civil war of succession and enjoyed great military superiority over the slow siege warfare that the Incan had employed against its enemies.

(42) Massed on a high, cold Peruvian plain north of the great lake in the mid-1400s, the army of the Colla bristled with battle gear, daring the Inca invaders to make war.

(43) Eight months later, they executed their royal captive, and in 1533 their leader, Francisco Pizarro, picked a young prince, Manco Inca Yupanqui, to rule as a puppet king.

(44) The Quechuan language of the Inca empire, now widely spoken throughout the Andes highlands from southern Colombia to Chile.

(45) Inca version of thin, favour of economical of plate material consumption, conducive to conserve resources.

(46) That's what had happened to the artificial mummies of the Inca rulers.

(47) The salt pans at Maras, in use since pre - Inca days.