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The Inca empire: everything you wanted to know

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🗓️ 17 July 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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What did an ordinary day in the Inca empire look like? How did the Inca count using knots? And why were stones so sacred to the civilization? In conversation with Emily Briffett, Bill Sillar answers listener questions on the mighty empire which dominated swathes of land in South America. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.

0:05.0

A bit of a different thing going on this week.

0:07.3

You've been immature and you've lied.

0:10.3

And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.

0:13.9

I was trying to manipulate you.

0:15.7

Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.

0:18.1

I know, I'd be like, are you joking?

0:20.6

I don't know.

0:21.7

I guess you'd have to ask.

0:23.5

Someone that has sex.

0:24.2

Someone that has sex.

0:26.3

And remember, it's just between us.

0:30.9

Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine and BBC History Reveal.

1:01.3

I'm Ellie Cawthorne. What did an ordinary day in the Inca Empire look like? How did the Inca's count using knots? And why were stones so sacred to them? Emily Briffitt spoke to Bill Siller

1:08.4

to find out everything you wanted to know about the Inca Empire.

1:12.7

As usual in this series, our questions are drawn from popular internet search queries and

1:18.1

ones that you've submitted on our social media channels. So hi Bill, it's lovely to be chatting to

1:23.4

you today. Hi. Well, thank you for inviting me. Today we're going to be answering listener

1:27.4

questions and top internet search queries all about the Inca's. So to start us off, who were the

1:33.8

Inca's? So the Inca, I mean, they mean slightly different things. The word means slightly

1:39.0

different things for different people. At the top of the tree, if you like, is the leader of the

1:44.0

Inca Empire, the Sapa Inca, the Unique Inca. Under him, there's a family, if you like, of kinship groups of other Inca's. Beyond that, there is the group of ethnic groups around Kusko, and they consolidated to provide the core of what became an

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