The Inca empire was a fierce and competitive force in Latin America. The nation was on the west coast of South America. This picture shows one of the ancient ruins: Machu Picchu. Machu Picchu was a highly organized city with hundreds of stone structures. These magnificent buildings show what kind of society the Incas had. They were not barbarians as the Spanish led others to believe but a moral, kind, and religious people.
The Incan Empire was a vast setting for this ancient civilization. It dominated most of the areas along the western coast. This area had many mountains and was very hard to build a nation into these rocky cliffs. This is another way of showing how advanced the Inca were.