Ruled by an emperor, or Sapa Inca, who represented (and was descended from) the sun god, the Inca assimilated multiple regional tribes in a 300,000-square-mile area to produce a complex empire ...

The last Sapa Inca to ascend the throne before Spanish contact, Huayna Capac, grandson of famed emperor Pachacuti, survived multiple plots against his rule before guiding the Inca Empire through ...

In 1781, the revolutionary amaru-kataristas occupy the highlands of southern Peru. Sapa Inca, the last descendant of the Aymara Incas, and his wife Gregoria, decide to continue the indigenous ...