The capital of the Inca Empire was Cuzco. True or False?

History · High School · Thu Feb 04 2021

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True. The capital of the Inca Empire was indeed Cuzco, which is located in present-day Peru. Cuzco served as the administrative, political, and cultural centre of the Inca Empire, which was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America.

The Inca Empire, also known as Tawantinsuyu, was a sophisticated and powerful civilization in South America that flourished between the 15th and 16th centuries until the Spanish conquest. Cuzco, which means "navel of the world" in the Quechua language, was established according to a mythical cosmology and was laid out to resemble a puma, a sacred animal. It was home to the Sapa Inca (the emperor), the Temple of the Sun (Qorikancha), and many other important religious and administrative buildings. The Inca developed advanced agricultural techniques, built extensive road systems, and established a noteworthy system of governance throughout their large empire, which covered modern-day Peru, western Ecuador, western and south central Bolivia, northwest Argentina, a large portion of what is today Chile, and the southwesternmost tip of Colombia.

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