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• plural of Inca.

Incas

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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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In this middle area, too, a landscape and the sea, also associated with Incan gods, are visible above a stone wall much like those the Incas built.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

“There’s a mystical weirdness about the place that is so cool,” Glasnow said of the ancient stone-walled structures of the Lost City of the Incas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2024

From there the Princess will head to Qoricancha, or “The Golden Temple” in Quechua language, considered the most important - and most sacred - temple by the Incas.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 3, 2023

Today, we know that de la Vega’s vision of the Incas was idealized.

From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2023

Two Native American peoples, the Aztecs and the Incas, ruled over empires with stone tools.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond