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Although the Inca build amazing roads, they do not have any horses or wheels. They walk everywhere, sometimes carrying things on their backs, or using a llama to carry their loads. The llama, however, cannot carry very heavy loads and cannot walk more than twelve miles a day.
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Manco Capac is considered the first Inca. Believed to be the son of the sun, he marries his sister, Mama Ocllo, the daughter of the moon. From now on an Inca ruler must marry his sister, and it is only from this marriage that the next ruler can be named.
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The Inca first settle in the Cuzco Valley of what is now the country of Peru in South America. They will go on to control land along the Pacific Coast as far north as southern Columbia, as far south as northern Chile, and that stretches into eastern Bolivia.
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he Inca first settle in the Cuzco Valley of what is now the country of Peru in South America. They will go on to control land along the Pacific Coast as far north as southern Columbia, as far south as northern Chile, and that stretches into eastern Bolivia.
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Topa Inca, Pachacuti's son. is now the 10th ruler. He expands the empire some 2,500 miles.
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Huayna Capac leaves two other sons without naming a successor. The two fight it out to see who will rule. Atahuallpa wins.
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Explorer Francisco Pizarro sails to the Americas looking for gold. He makes his way to South America where he finds the Inca. He captured Atahualpa in Cajamarca and slaughters many others. He ransoms the Inca ruler for a room full of gold, but then kills the leader anyway.
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Pizarro goes to Cuzco and puts Atahualpa's brother, Manco Inca, in charge of the remaining Inca. Accounts of the Spanish conquest are written by Pedro Sancho de la Hoz and Francisco de Jerez, assistants to Pizarro
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After a while, Manco Inca rebels against the Spaniards. He is killed in 1544. Tupac Amaru becomes the last ruler of the Inca. He is killed in 1572 in Cusco. The Inca Empire is gone and its vast lands are now ruled by Spain
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Between 1580 and 1620 A.D., Huaman Poma, a native of Peru, writes an account with pictures of the Inca. He includes many of their customs and shows how they suffered under the Spanish
