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Inca

DEFINITIONS OF: Inca

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n the small group of Quechua living in the Cuzco Valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors in order to create an empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s

Synonyms:
Inka
Example of:
community
a group of people living in a particular local area

n a ruler of the Incas (or a member of his family)

Types:
Huayna Capac
the Incan ruler under whom the Incan empire reached its widest extent (died in 1525)
Type of:
ruler, swayer
a person who rules or commands

n a member of the Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru

Synonyms:
Incan, Inka
Type of:
Kechua, Quechua
a member of a South American Indian people in Peru who were formerly the ruling class of the Inca empire
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