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Author Cohen Suarez, Ananda.

Title Handbook to life in the Inca world / Ananda Cohen Suarez, Jeremy James George
Published New York : Facts On File, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (330 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Facts on File library of world history
Facts on File library of world history.
Contents Inca civilization and archaeology -- Evolution of Andean civilization -- Building the Inca world -- Society and government -- Military and warfare -- Religion, cosmology, and mythology -- Funerary beliefs and customs -- Inca art -- Inca architecture and urbanism -- The calendar, astronomy, and mathematics -- Economy, industry, and trade -- Daily life -- The conquest and the post-conquest world
Summary Although it only lasted a few centuries, the Inca Empire quickly became one of the world's most famous pre-Columbian centers of power. Handbook to Life in the Inca World is a comprehensive and accessible examination of the Inca Empire, which stretched across the Andes Mountains in Peru from the 13th century until the invasion of the Spanish in the 16th century. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, art history, ethnography, and 16th-century Spanish chronicles, this handbook offers a readable, informative, and easy-to-navigate format that explains how the Inca Empire became such an influential
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-309) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Incas -- History
Incas -- Social life and customs
Incas -- Intellectual life
Incas -- Colonization
HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
Civilization
Incas
Incas -- Colonization
Incas -- Social life and customs
SUBJECT Peru -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88005310
Andes -- Civilization
Subject Andes
Peru
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author George, Jeremy James.
ISBN 9781438136158
1438136153