What is the Inca Civilization?

About Inca Civilization:

• Inca Civilization flourished in ancient Peru between c. 1400 and 1533 CE.
• It is the largest empire ever seen in the Americasand the largest in the world at that time.
• Inca society was highly stratified.
• The emperor ruled with the aid of an aristocratic bureaucracy.
• Inca technology and architecture were highly developed.
• Theireconomy was based on agriculture.
• The Inca religion combined features of animism, fetishism, and the worship of nature gods.
• The Inca language Quechuais still spoken by around eight million people in the world.
• The descendants of the Inca are the present-day Quechua-speaking peasants of the Andes, who constitute around 45 percent of the population of Peru.