The Mystery Of The Inca's Economy

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The mystery of the Inca's was it's economy. It stated, " In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the Inca Empire was the largest South America had ever known. Inca was so rich that it could afford to have hundreds of people who specialize planning to conquere areas. A mystery of the Inca's was that the life came from the Spanish invaders who effectively wiped them out. They were so dangerous they would have killed 90% of the Incan people.

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