USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Spreading across ancient Ecuador, Peru, northern Chile, Bolivia, upland Argentina, and southern Colombia and stretching 5, 500 km (3, 400 miles) north to south, 40, 000 Incas governed a huge territory with some 10 million subjects speaking over 30 different languages.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Inca Empire ranged 2, 500 miles from Ecuador to southern Chile before its destruction at the hands of Spanish conquistadors in 1532. Everyone was expected to contribute to the empire. Land was divided in three.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Inca built nearly 15, 000 mi (24, 140 km) of roads. Nearly onequarter of this total was made up of two primary roads that ran the length of the empire, one along the crest of the Andes and the other along the coast.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Inca road system (also spelled Inka road system and known as Qhapaq Ñan meaning “royal road” in Quechua) was the most extensive and advanced transportation system in pre-Columbian South America. It was about 40, 000 kilometres (25, 000 mi) long.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.