{"id":8613,"date":"2023-04-16T03:45:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T22:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8613"},"modified":"2025-03-29T04:03:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T22:33:29","slug":"what-is-the-inca-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-inca-civilization\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Inca Civilization?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Inca Civilization:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Inca Civilization flourished in ancient Peru between c. 1400 and 1533 CE.<\/li>\n<li>It is the largest empire ever seen in the Americas and the largest in the world at that time.<\/li>\n<li>Inca society was highly stratified.<\/li>\n<li>The emperor ruled with the aid of an aristocratic bureaucracy.<\/li>\n<li>Inca technology and architecture were highly developed.<\/li>\n<li>Their economy was based on agriculture.<\/li>\n<li>The Inca religion combined features of animism, fetishism, and the worship of nature gods.<\/li>\n<li>The Inca language Quechua is still spoken by around eight million people in the world.<\/li>\n<li>The descendants of the Inca are the present-day Quechua-speaking peasants of the Andes, who constitute around 45 percent of the population of Peru.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Machu Picchu?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a 15th-century Inca siteMachu Picchu is located 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Cuzco, Peru, in the Cordillera de Vilcabamba of the Andes Mountains.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eng.bharattimes.co.in\/peruvian-archaeologists-unearth-500-year-old-inca-ceremonial-bath\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Peruvian archaeologists unearth 500-year-old Inca ceremonial bath<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inca Civilization flourished in ancient Peru between c. 1400 and 1533 CE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}