Bonnie Whittaker, age 10, of Peking

Where did the Incas live?

We call them the Incas of Peru, though their rich empire stretched 3, 000 miles from Ecuador in the north to central Chile and the south and reached from the eastern  slopes of the Andes to the Pacific Ocean. The Inca warriors conquered this vast territory‑in‑a single century arid they governed it from their capital city of Cuzco in Peru,

The Incas governed well and did a great deal for their conquered peoples. Their encouraged farming and built great storehouses to supply food when famine struck in faraway places of the empire, They developed our everyday potato and did much to improve the quality of corn and sweet potatoes. Few Incas, however, chose to settle in the conquered territories and most of them remained in Peru where their descendants still live.