Empire of Peru

Introduction The empire of the Incas was a great, although brief, period in Peru's colorful past. There were many differing tribes that inhabited the land pre-Inca empire. However, the last of the people to inhabit Peru (pre-Spanish Invasion) constructed a vast empire that homogenized the tribes, and replaced the differences with a highly developed kind of welfare state. The Wari, Chankas, and Chan Chan are just a few of the other peoples that had populated …

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