In 1780, as the once-great Inca empire’s Indigenous peoples were forced to labor for the Spanish crown, leader Túpac Amaru II led a revolt against the Spanish colonists that turned the social ...

The last Sapa Inca to ascend the throne before Spanish contact, Huayna Capac, grandson of famed emperor Pachacuti, survived multiple plots against his rule before guiding the Inca Empire through 30 ...

This was a world of different peoples, languages and gods, whose communities had often been at war with each other, and the full range of imperial techniques was deployed by the Inca to manage ...