THE INCA EMPIRE: THE GREATEST CIVILIZATION YOU DON'T KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT
Episode 9 | Human History — Civilizations & Empires
In this History episode we focus on the Inca Empire — the most sophisticated civilization in the pre-Columbian Americas, governing 12 million people across 4,000 kilometers of Andes with roads, storehouses, relay runners, and precision engineering that still impresses modern engineers — built without writing, without the wheel, without iron, in less than a century.
This episode covers Pachacuti's extraordinary expansion and the institutions he created, the quipu system, the mit'a labor system, the civil war and smallpox epidemic that made…
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