Modern Descendants Of The Inca Empire

By studying the genetics of modern-day descendants from the ancient Inca nobility, researchers have been able to piece together the origin of the Inca Empire.

While today we use the term Inca to refer to all people who were ruled under the empire – from southern Colombia to central Chile – in its strictest sense it actually refers to just the ruling class at the time, who numbered perhaps as many as 40,000 people out of the entire 10 million. In the native language of Quechua, the empire is known as Tawantinsuyu.

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Modern Descendants Of The Inca Empire