The Incas: Lords Of The Four Quarters

Author: Craig Morris

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Price : $29.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780500289440
Publisher : Thames & Hudson, Limited
Imprint : Thames & Hudson Ltd
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Weight (g) : 0.72
Publication date : May 2017
Dimensions : 246mm X 157mm X 18mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
RRP : 29.99
Availability date : July 2017
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Author : Craig Morris
Series : Ancient Peoples and Places
Bind : Paperback
Edition : 717
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Language : English
Dewey classification : 980.01
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Library of Con LOCSH : 2010935687
Pages : 256
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Illustrations : black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, black & white line drawings, maps, frontispiece
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At its zenith it extended northward from the Inca capital Cuzco along the spine of the Andes to embrace most of modern Peru and Ecuador, and southward into Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. The sheer scale of the empire, coupled with the challenges of the rugged landscape, made the Inca achievement truly remarkable.This is the most up-to-date and authoritative account available of the Incas: their politics, economics, religion, architecture, art, and technology. The authors look in detail at the four parts of the empire, exploring not just famous sites such as Machu Picchu but all the major regional settlements. The book concludes with the end of the empire: the arrival of the Spaniards, the assassination of the Inca ruler Atawallpa, and the final years of the rebellious, neo-Inca state in the tropical forests of Vilcabamba.

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A lively, deeply informed and highly readable account of the last great empire of pre-Columbian South America.--Gary Urton, Harvard University

Acknowledgement of country

The Bundjalung of Byron Bay Arakwal People have lived in the coastal landscape around Byron Bay for at least 22,000 years.We acknowledge and show respect for the original people on the land on which we are based. We respectfully acknowledge the ancient cultural presence in the Australian landscape by First Nation peoples and their ongoing traditional and spiritual custodianship of the marine areas, beaches, bush, rivers, lakes and mountains.