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  • What was the Inca's mission?
  • The Inca began as a small tribe who steadily grew in power to conquer other peoples all down the coast from Columbia to Argentina. They are remembered for their contributions to religion, architecture, and their famous network of roads through the region.
  • How did the Inca Empire become so powerful?
  • Inca society was highly stratified. The emperor ruled with the aid of an aristocratic bureaucracy, exercising authority with harsh and often repressive controls. Inca technology and architecture were highly developed, although not strikingly original.
  • What caused the fall of the Inca Empire?
  • While historians concluded that there were plenty of reasons for the fall of the Inca Empire, they ruled out that the coming of the foreign epidemics and advanced weaponry used by the Spaniards were behind their losses. Moreover, the Spaniards were skilled in the manipulation of power. They used this trick as a key strategy in defeating the Empire.
  • Who were the Inca?
  • Inca, also spelled Inka, South American Indians who, at the time of the Spanish conquest in 1532, ruled an empire that extended along the Pacific coast and Andean highlands from the northern border of modern Ecuador to the Maule River in central Chile.