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seive.s fnto groups . more pronouncedly clannish
than before, under the
leadership of curacas,
sinchis, a pus,.
1
etc., who, spurred by rivalry,
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mbarked upon a campaign of bloody w.ars in a
spirit of political aggrandizement; this struggle
endured, perphaps, through many centuries .
.
The Inca Epoch.
Followed the domination of the Incas. Ther-e
now appears the legendary Manco Capac,
il–
lustrious hero of _Quechua song, with his subli–
me
sister-wife, Mama-Occllo,-both of
these
·personages symbolizing the beginning of a new
culture as well as a new historical cycle.
Referring solely to Cuzco, this epoch of the
Incas may be
tl ·
i ·ed into two periods-that of
the formation, and that of the definite constitu–
tion of the political structure or nationalization
throughout tbe greater part of P·erú.
Primitive Tribes.
The various
tribes which are believed
to
have been the first rulers in this territory, settled
in the Valley of Cuzeo, at the foot of the mount–
ains, upon the plains of Sacs.ahuaman and So–
corro. Among them was the tribe of the Antasa–
yacc, under the command of the valient Quiscu–
sinchi, who ruled in the section toward Puma-
•
curco and Colcampata; this region was called
Ccoscco, and from this word may have been
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