THE INCA EMPIRE: THE GREATEST CIVILIZATION YOU DON'T KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT

Episode 9 | Human History — Civilizations & EmpiresIn this History episode we focus on the Inca Empire — the most sophisticated civilization in the pre-Columbian Americas, governing 12 million people across 4,000 kilometers of Andes with roads, storehouses, relay runners, and precision engineering that still impresses modern engineers — built without writing, without the wheel, without iron, in less than a century.This episode covers Pachacuti's extraordinary expansion and the institutions he created, the quipu system, the mit'a labor system, the civil war and smallpox epidemic that made the empire vulnerable, Pizarro's 1532 ambush and the largest ransom in history, the long resistance of the Inca state in the mountains, and the survival of Andean people and Andean knowledge to the present.Then 168 Spanish soldiers destroyed it.#HistoryMystery #IncaEmpire #Peru #Tawantinsuyu #HistoryPodcast