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The Inca empire: everything you wanted to know

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The Incas and Their Textiles

In a sense, the inca didn't conquer the amazon. They expanded outt they tended to expand along the mountain range and going down on to the coast - but not particularly down into the fol jungle of the bottom. The highlands are producing with lama and alpaca wool, and sometimes vicuna and even bat fur from the lowlands. And things metal work, particularly famous as some of their gold and silver work, but also copper alloys,. bronzes that are being produced, and beautiful figurines and things like that made at isi.

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