Inca

__ **Inca** __

The Inca is a group of people who live in the pre-Columbian era. The Inca Empire was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America.They called themselves Tawantinsuyu, and they built their empire in Cusco which extending between Ecuador and Chile. The civilization of Inca empire started from the highlands in the early 13 th century. The Inca are highland people; they preferred to be simple and functional. The official language of the empire was Quechua. Because the Inca were the Native Americans that the Spanish conquered, their culture is the Central Andean Area civilization; however, many Inca artifacts were destroyed by the Spanish. The desire of gold and wealth attempted them to do that. Highland Inca cities such as Machu Picchu were carefully planned to become a landscape for the tourism nowadays. The indigenous materials and architectural natural forms are very attractive and beautiful. For the religion, there were many local forms of worship. "Huacas" is the most common one, but the Inca leadership encouraged the worship of Inti which is the sun god in inca empire and imposed its sovereignty. In addition. Inca buildings were constructed with carefully shaped. It is very famous of the usage of stones and the trapezoidal doors and windows. The Inca also very advantaged on arts. They produced neither large-scale freestanding statues nor architectural sculpture. Metal figurines and small stone ceremonial bowls in the shape of llamas and alpacas are among the finest examples of their sculpture. Moreover, Inca pottery, such as Chimu, was mass-produced. The most characteristic shape of inca pottery was the aryballos, a liquids container.