INCA POWER POLITICS.

The article focuses on abandoned Inca city of Huánuco Pampa in Peru which bears witness like no other site to the twin conquests that convulsed the central Andes and invasion of the Spanish conquistadores in the 1530s. It mentions how the Inca folded the inhabitants of conquered regions into their empire through a combination of military aggression, reciprocal trading relationships, and marriages between their own elite and the leaders of other ethnic groups.