Access to formal education in Incan society was limited to children of the central nobility and certain levels of the curacal (hatun curaca). They attended the yachaywasi (house of knowledge) in Cusco to learn from the amautas (wises) and the haravicus (poets).
The Inca are an Indigenous people of South America who 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.
Machu Picchu Aerial View Dan Merino (CC BY) The Inca civilization flourished in ancient Peru between c. 1400 and 1533 CE. The Inca Empire eventually extended across western South America from Quito in the north to Santiago in the south. It was the largest empire ever seen in the Americas and the largest in the world at that time. Undaunted by the often harsh Andean environment, the Incas ...
The Inca Empire was a vast South American civilization that at its peak stretched over 2,500 miles. Overwhelmed by Sp...