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    All About: Impressive Incas
    All About: Impressive Incas
    All About: Impressive Incas
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    All About: Impressive Incas

    By P S Quick

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    This fantastic book, filled with amazing facts and photographs, describes what life was like for the Incas. It gives an in-depth account of all aspects of life and people of the time - including sections about emperors, cities, religion, gods, everyday life and many more.

    The 'All About' series is an educational collection of books from P S Quick, and is targeted to interest 7 to 11 year olds - but will fascinate readers of all ages. At the end of each book there is a quiz section for the reader, featuring 150 questions and answers.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAUK Academic
    Release dateMar 5, 2015
    ISBN9781783337613
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      Book preview

      All About - P S Quick

      Title Page

      ALL ABOUT

      IMPRESSIVE INCAS

      P S Quick

      Publisher Information

      Published in 2014 by

      Andrews UK Limited

      www.andrewsuk.com

      The right of P S Quick to be identified as the Author of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1998

      Copyright © 2014 P S Quick

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Any person who does so may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

      Introduction

      This fantastic book, filled with amazing facts and photographs, describes what life was like for the Incas. It gives an in-depth account of all aspects of life and people of the time - including sections about emperors, cities, religion, gods, everyday life and many more.

      The ‘All About’ series is an educational collection of books from P S Quick, and is targeted to interest 7 to 11 year olds - but will fascinate readers of all ages. At the end of each book there is a quiz section for the reader, featuring 150 questions and answers.

      The Incas of South America

      The Incas were South American Indians who lived in the Andes Mountains and the land we know as Peru today. Their first settlement was in the Cuzco valley around 1150 AD.

      The Incas created one of the largest empires in the world which only lasted for a short time before it was destroyed by the Spanish explorers who were led by Francesco Pizarro. The empire extended along the Pacific coast from Chile to the southern part of Columbia and included parts of Argentina, Bolivia, modern day Ecuador and Peru.

      Much of the land was covered with mountains but this was where the Incas lived. The mountains provided the perfect protection from invasion and their peaks were worshipped as gods. To the east of the Andes was the Amazon jungle where the Incas collected many of their resources. To the west of the mountains was a large coastal desert which also helped to protect the Incas from their enemies.

      The expansion of the Inca Empire

      Early Civilizations

      Although the land in the western part of South America was quite inhospitable many tribes lived there before the Incas. Archaeologists have found that from as early as 2000 BC people were farming the land and building small villages.

      Around 900 BC a tribe known as the Chavin lived in the Mosna Valley high up in the northern Andes. They built the temple of Chavin de Huantar and carved faces of their gods on huge walls of rock.

      From around 700 BC to 200 BC the Paracas civilization lived along the Peruvian coast. They were farmers who used advanced irrigation methods to water their crops. Archaeologists have discovered their network of underground tombs which contain well preserved mummies wrapped in magnificent fabrics which had been dyed and decorated. The Paracas were also skilled surgeons.

      The Nazca civilization occupied the coastal plain of Southern Peru from around 200 BC to 600 AD. They were skilled craftsmen in pottery and textiles as well as what were known as Nazca lines - lines which formed the shapes of animals and birds when viewed from the air. They also built underground aqueducts known as the Puquios, many of which still bring water into the desert area today.

      Entrance to Puquios aqueduct

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