INCA-14
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Not yet released - expected in early December.
The Canari consisted of a loose confederation of individual, largely independent tribes. They wore their hair long by Inca standards, and knotted some of it at the front of the head.
They wore metal rings through ears and nose, which earned them the nickname “Quillacana”, “metal noses”.
Whenever Canari are mentioned in Spanish texts they are always referred to as spearmen, and it is with spears that the only period picture depicts them.
The type of spear was called a Llaca, was about 6-7 foot long with a bronze, copper, stone or fire hardened wood. They were usually bordered comprising of multi coloured feathers that ran through rings almost the whole length of the shaft.
The Inca Empire was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The Inca civilization rose from the Peruvian highlands sometime in the early 13th Century. The administrative, political and military centre of the empire was in the city of Cusco.
From 1438 to 15 33 the Incas incorporated a large portion of western South America, centered on the Andean Mountains, using conquest and peaceful assimilation, among other methods.
At its largest, the Empire joined modern day Peru, what is now western Equador, western and South central Bolivia, northwest Argentina, the southwest tip of Columbia and a large portion of modern day Chile, into a state comparable to the historical empires of Eurasia. Its official language was Quechua.
The Spanish began the conquest of the Inca Empire in 1532 and by 1572 the last Inca state was fully conquered.