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Incas

  1. A Native American people who built a notable civilization in western South America in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The center of their empire was in present-day Peru . Francisco Pizarro of Spain conquered the Inca Empire.


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Especially when the leader in question is that Inca of Incas, the president of the United States.

A similarity is also said to exist between the decorations on the palaces of the Incas and those of the Khans.

At certain seasons the Incas turned up the sod here, amid much rejoicing and many ceremonies.

I may mention here that the Incas possessed a cross of fine marble, or jasper, highly polished, and all of one piece.

In an effort to win the girl of his heart, the hero penetrates into the wilds of the land of the Incas.

Whatever it was, from the Incas' point of view it was absolute and satisfactory.

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