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nounˈɪŋkəˈɪŋkə A South American hummingbird having mainly blackish or bronze-coloured plumage with one or two white breast patches. Genus Coeligena, family Trochilidae: four species Example sentencesExamples - To stay warm, Inca doves (Columbina inca) form groups of up to 12 and stand on each other's backs.
noun ˈɪŋkəˈɪŋkə 1A member of a South American people living in the central Andes before the Spanish conquest. The Incas arrived in the Cuzco valley in Peru c.AD 1200. When the Spanish invaded in the early 1530s, the Inca empire covered most of modern Ecuador and Peru, much of Bolivia, and parts of Argentina and Chile. Inca technology and architecture were highly developed despite a lack of wheeled vehicles and of writing. Their descendants, speaking Quechua, still make up about half of Peru's population Example sentencesExamples - The Andes, home of the Incas, remain predominantly Indian, the language Quechua spoken more often than Spanish.
- After the conquest of the Incas, Peru's capital, Lima, became the center of Spain's colonial power structure in the Americas.
- The vast Inca wealth made the Andes a target of intense exploration and exploitation.
- The brewery may be the oldest large-scale facility of its kind ever found in the Andes and predates the Inca Empire by at least four centuries, he said.
- Not like the Inca or Aztec civilizations, Colombian Indians lived in a more compact area.
- First graders learn about Native Americans, second graders study the Caribbean, third graders learn of the Incas and South America, and fourth and fifth graders focus on the Mayan and Aztec cultures.
- After the Spanish conquest, greedy colonialists began plundering the Inca's realm.
- Sheridan's Pizarro opens in 1534, with the Spaniard Francisco Pizarro waging a war of conquest against the Inca Empire of Peru.
- In that year, the conquest of the Incas in Peru gave the Spaniards strategic positions in the north and south for the subjugation and colonization of Colombia.
- In 1534, the Spanish arrived and defeated the Inca armies, and Spanish colonists became the new elite.
- A myth of the early Incas and other Indians was that a bearded white man had come to teach the Indians and would return.
- Donning replicas of Inca tunics, rather than contemporary Andean garb, Quechua Indians reenact the Inca sun-worshiping ceremony.
- The combination of the setting and the architecture is sublime and the best description I know is, appropriately, in John Hemming's classic, The Conquest of the Incas.
- Even the sophisticated imperial systems built up by the Aztecs in central Mexico or by the Incas in the Andes proved unable to offer effective military resistance to Spanish assaults.
- The potato was originally grown by the Incas in Central and South America, and was brought to Europe in the 16th century by the explorers of the time.
- The Incas in South America followed a similar strategy and built 5,230 km of road running from north to south across 35 degrees of latitude.
- The Inca, Maya and Aztec cultures all had advanced metallurgy by the time the Spanish arrived.
- Their Aymara and Quechua roots go back to the Inca Empire that was conquered by the Spanish conquistadors 500 years ago.
- Archaeological and anthropological evidence suggests that the sun was also deified by other ancient civilizations including the Druids, Aztecs, Incas and American Indians.
- The Incas conquered the central valley in the 15th century, and their communications network included a road from Cuzco to Quito, which they set up as their regional capital.
2The supreme ruler of the Incas. Example sentencesExamples - The ordinary judges gave a monthly account of the sentences they imposed to their superiors, and they in turn reported to their immediate superiors, and so on finally to the Inca or those of his Supreme Council.
- The Inca reigned as absolute monarch, but his will reached the common man only through the local chiefs, whose authority and privileges were maintained, if not reinforced.
Derivatives adjective ɪŋˈkeɪɪk The soft geometry of that Incaic ‘pillow masonry’ (as it is known) become even more impressive at the giant fortresses of Sacsayhuaman and, further away, at Ollantaytambo. Example sentencesExamples - The Incaic period, to which most Ecuadorians refer when discussing the indigenous past, began about 1480 and ended fifty years later with the Spanish conquest led by Francisco Pizarro and Diego Almagro.
- Ancient Hebrew temple prostitution is dismissed as a myth; Murray also wishes to cast doubt on the more recent and more detailed Spanish accounts of Incaic temple prostitution, an example of which he quotes.
- Should I pray to some Incaic god to stop me from asking too many questions to strangers?
adjective The trek will see them walking from the Peruvian city of Cusco, through breathtaking landscapes of cloud forests, river valleys, and mountain passes, to the ancient Incan city of Machu Picchu. Example sentencesExamples - Originally spoken during the Incan empire, Quechua is still spoken by about 13 million people in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, and Chile.
- Blinded by greed and terrified by the cultural difference they experienced, the Spanish systematically wiped out both the Incan and Aztec cultures, two of the most advanced civilizations that the pre-modern world had ever seen.
- Other ancient and sophisticated calendars are the Athenian, the Egyptian, the Incan, the Aztec and the Mayan.
- However, a significant proportion of Ecuador's Andean population speaks the ancient Incan language of Quechua and a variety of related dialects.
Origin The name in Quechua, literally 'lord, royal person'. Rhymes blinker, clinker, drinker, finca, freethinker, Glinka, inker, jinker, shrinker, sinker, Soyinka, stinker, stotinka, thinker, tinker, Treblinka, winker nounˈɪŋkəˈiNGkə A South American hummingbird having mainly blackish or bronze-colored plumage with one or two white breast patches. Genus Coeligena, family Trochilidae: four species Example sentencesExamples - To stay warm, Inca doves (Columbina inca) form groups of up to 12 and stand on each other's backs.
nounˈiNGkəˈɪŋkə 1A member of a South American people living in the central Andes before the Spanish conquest. The Incas arrived in the Cuzco valley in Peru c.AD 1200. When the Spanish invaded in the early 1530s, the Inca empire covered most of modern Ecuador and Peru, much of Bolivia, and parts of Argentina and Chile. Inca technology and architecture were highly developed. Their descendants, speaking Quechua, still make up about half of Peru's population Example sentencesExamples - After the Spanish conquest, greedy colonialists began plundering the Inca's realm.
- Donning replicas of Inca tunics, rather than contemporary Andean garb, Quechua Indians reenact the Inca sun-worshiping ceremony.
- The brewery may be the oldest large-scale facility of its kind ever found in the Andes and predates the Inca Empire by at least four centuries, he said.
- The Inca, Maya and Aztec cultures all had advanced metallurgy by the time the Spanish arrived.
- Not like the Inca or Aztec civilizations, Colombian Indians lived in a more compact area.
- Archaeological and anthropological evidence suggests that the sun was also deified by other ancient civilizations including the Druids, Aztecs, Incas and American Indians.
- After the conquest of the Incas, Peru's capital, Lima, became the center of Spain's colonial power structure in the Americas.
- The vast Inca wealth made the Andes a target of intense exploration and exploitation.
- The Incas conquered the central valley in the 15th century, and their communications network included a road from Cuzco to Quito, which they set up as their regional capital.
- Sheridan's Pizarro opens in 1534, with the Spaniard Francisco Pizarro waging a war of conquest against the Inca Empire of Peru.
- The potato was originally grown by the Incas in Central and South America, and was brought to Europe in the 16th century by the explorers of the time.
- In that year, the conquest of the Incas in Peru gave the Spaniards strategic positions in the north and south for the subjugation and colonization of Colombia.
- Even the sophisticated imperial systems built up by the Aztecs in central Mexico or by the Incas in the Andes proved unable to offer effective military resistance to Spanish assaults.
- The Andes, home of the Incas, remain predominantly Indian, the language Quechua spoken more often than Spanish.
- In 1534, the Spanish arrived and defeated the Inca armies, and Spanish colonists became the new elite.
- First graders learn about Native Americans, second graders study the Caribbean, third graders learn of the Incas and South America, and fourth and fifth graders focus on the Mayan and Aztec cultures.
- A myth of the early Incas and other Indians was that a bearded white man had come to teach the Indians and would return.
- The Incas in South America followed a similar strategy and built 5,230 km of road running from north to south across 35 degrees of latitude.
- Their Aymara and Quechua roots go back to the Inca Empire that was conquered by the Spanish conquistadors 500 years ago.
- The combination of the setting and the architecture is sublime and the best description I know is, appropriately, in John Hemming's classic, The Conquest of the Incas.
2The supreme ruler of the Inca. Example sentencesExamples - The Inca reigned as absolute monarch, but his will reached the common man only through the local chiefs, whose authority and privileges were maintained, if not reinforced.
- The ordinary judges gave a monthly account of the sentences they imposed to their superiors, and they in turn reported to their immediate superiors, and so on finally to the Inca or those of his Supreme Council.
Origin The name in Quechua, literally ‘lord, royal person’. |