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2015-09-08T19:55:32.000Z
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Video Title:
The Great Inka Road: Connecting and Integrating an Empire
Description:
The Inka Road linked the peoples of the empire's four regions, or suyus, to the capital at Cusco. In addition, historian Donato Amado Gonzales points out, by monitoring the entryways into the city, Inka officials could learn who came and went along the road system. Amado Gonzales is a doctoral candidate at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and a member of Peru's National Academy of History. Produced for the exhibition "The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire" (http://americanindian.si.edu/inkaroad/), on view at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., through June 1, 2018.
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1 min 24 sec
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