Empire of the Inca

by Burr Cartwright Brundage

Book Overview

A great account of a classic Indian civilization, this book tells the story of a people who, hatched in a small pocket of the Peruvian sierra, rose in the end to become the architects and chief beneficiaries of an empire they called Tahuantinsuyo, the Four Quarters. Tahuantinsuyo, with Cuzco as its highly respected seat of government and the official residence of the ruling Inca, was a sacred empire. Its territorial aggrandizement was a function of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806119241
• ISBN13: 9780806119243
• Release Date: March 1985
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.3"