WHO WERE THE INCA?

Indispensable for an understanding of Machuppichu, this book is the result of six years? researches in the Sacred Valley of the Incas. In a single, fully illustrated book, you will learn the history of the major Latin American empire prior to the European conquest and how its men and women lived- their beliefs, forms of production, distribution into social classes, the structure of the government that led them, their eating habits, the artisanal technology of the ?Virgins of the Sun? and the architectural and urbanism techniques behind South America?s first planned cities. With rich historical and anthropological content, Who were the Inca? recreates that people's founding journey from Lake Titicaca to the city of Cusco and, from there, to the domination, in a mere century, of the peoples from southern Chile to northern Ecuador. Over one hundred images ? les, maps and photos ? facilitate comprehension and illustrate the grandeur of that people and their conquests.