When Huayna Capac perished of a mysterious disease in Ecuador around 1527 ... The great plaza of Cusco was the political center of the Inca Empire. The Saphy River divided it into two sacred ...

When I first looked at background material on the project that became "The Great Inca Rebellion," I had mixed ... lack of resistance to European diseases, the tragic but beautiful Indian inability ...

"Land of the Four Quarters" or Tahuantinsuyu is the name the Inca gave to their empire. It stretched north to south some 2,500 miles along the high mountainous Andean range from Colombia to Chile ...