"Land of the Four Quarters" or Tahuantinsuyu is the name the Inca gave to their empire. It stretched north to south some 2,500 miles along the high mountainous Andean range from Colombia to Chile ...

Around 1500, the Inca Empire ran for over three thousand miles (5,000 km) down the Andes, and ruled over 12 million people from the Pacific Coast to the Amazonian jungle. In 1532 the Spanish would ...

Following the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire (1532–1572), the religious beliefs and traditions of the Inca and their subjects were heavily suppressed by the zealous clergymen who sought to ...