Inka

Examples

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• Since Rowe first defined the two basic styles of Inka masonry, scholars have worked to refine its types and categories.

  Academic text (2007)

• Such architecture declared the Inka presence wherever buildings in this style stood.

  Academic text (2007)

• All of these forms recall the character of the Inka built environment, bringing to mind Inka order.

  Academic text (2007)

• We also see the powerful act of conjoining through which the Inka world was produced.

  Academic text (2007)

• Living rock, once merged with an Inka structure, is this relationship made visible.

  Academic text (2007)

• So long as the rocks remain, Inka order will endure.

  Academic text (2007)

• In fact, Inka construction in many places went further than declaring Inka control over acquired territories.

  Academic text (2007)

• As a consequence, integrated outcrops spoke to Inka ownership of specific territories.

  Academic text (2007)

• Once thoroughly incorporated into the settlement, they present evidence of the Inka's civilizing presence.

  Academic text (2007)

• Yet Tawantinsuyu is an Inka construct that, in its very creation, involved reordering much of the Andes.

  Academic text (2007)

Synonyms

I

Inca

vsInka

5.6

A person who lived in the empire that ruled Peru before the Spanish came

is used for local language speakers from the Cuzco Valley, not the whole empire

Q

Quechua

vsInka

9.6

A person from the native people of the Andes who once ruled in the Inca Empire

is narrower, meaning local Cuzco Valley language speakers rather than the broad Andean group

K

Kechua

vsInka

9.9

A person from a native people in Peru who was once part of the Inca ruling class

focuses on language speakers from Cuzco Valley rather than elite historical status

Surface Forms

Etymology