USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Inca roads covered over 40, 000 km (25, 000 miles), principally in two main highways running north to south across the Inca Empire, which eventually spread over ancient Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia, and Argentina. One highway ran down the coast, and the other wound through the highlands.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Incas built more than 18, 600 miles/30, 000 km of paved roads in the most rugged terrain in the world. These roads and all the Inca and pre-Inca infrastructure along them are protected by UNESCO World Heritage Sites since 1994.

Detailed explanation-3: -Although the Inca roads varied greatly in scale, construction and appearance, for the most part they varied between about one and four meters in width. “Much of the system was the result of the Incas claiming exclusive right over numerous traditional routes, some of which had been built centuries earlier.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Qhapaq Ñan, or Road of the Inka, made this triumph possible. A vast complex of roads, bridges, and other structures, the Qhapaq Ñan was the largest construction in the Western Hemisphere when Inka power was at its height.

Detailed explanation-5: -Key Takeaways: The Inca Road Road construction began in the mid-fifteenth century when the Inca gained control over its neighbors and started expanding their empire. The construction exploited and expanded on existing ancient roadways, and it ended abruptly 125 years later when the Spanish arrived in Peru.