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n. - A member of the small group of Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors to create an empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s.

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  • - A lost Incan tribe still surviving up in the Andes
  • Within 70 years, 93% of the Incan population had died.
  • One of these is the Incan ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru.
  • Long ago, I read that Incan society had an interesting custom.
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