Get to know Incan better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like inca or inka.
Incan in a sentence
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Incan meaning
Of or pertaining to the Inca people and culture.
Using Incan
- The main meaning on this page is: Of or pertaining to the Inca people and culture.
- Useful related words include: inca, inka, quechua, kechua.
- In the example corpus, incan often appears in combinations such as: the incan, incan empire, incan history.
Context around Incan
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 10 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Incan
- In this selection, "incan" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, aztec, ancient, pre, empire, army and pre stand out and add context to how "incan" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include after this incan ritual and battle with incan troops in. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "incan" sits close to words such as aapi, aarey and aberdare, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with incan
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
This name hails from ancient Incan history. (7 words)
The Incan army withdrew during the night. (7 words)
He undertook two expeditions to conquer the Incan Empire in 1524 and in 1526. (14 words)
The Inca forces greatly out numbered the Spanish, however the Spanish superiority of weapons, tactics and the fact that the most trusted in Inca Generals were in Cusco led to an easy defeat and the capture of the Incan Emperor. (40 words)
The advance guard fought a pitched battle with Incan troops in front of the city, but the battle had ended before Pizarro arrived with the rest of the Spanish party. (30 words)
Incan languages such as Quechua and Aymara have an almost straightforward decimal system, in which 11 is expressed as ten with one and 23 as two-ten with three. (29 words)
Example sentences (20)
Disney/Marvel tweaked the character to have Mayan/Aztec/Incan pre-Colombian roots, which I suppose is a sop to that racial group.
During a blood moon, the Incan warriors made a great deal of noise and incited their hounds to bark and howl.
People began to show astonishment and interest in such stone before and after this Incan ritual.
The ultimate destination on that hike - which apparently isn't for the faint of heart or those with vertigo (due to its steepness) - is an Incan fortress.
This name hails from ancient Incan history.
Almost all of the gold and silver work of the Incan empire was melted down by the conquistadors.
De Soto was sent to the camp of the Incan army, where he and his men plundered Atahualpa's tents.
He never found gold or the cities which Incan scouts had told him lay ahead, only communities of the indigenous population who lived from subsistence agriculture.
He undertook two expeditions to conquer the Incan Empire in 1524 and in 1526.
Huayna Capac's sudden death and followed days later by the Incan heir apparent from a strange disease, described by one smallpox Lovell, W. George.
Incan languages such as Quechua and Aymara have an almost straightforward decimal system, in which 11 is expressed as ten with one and 23 as two-ten with three.
Pre-Incan cultures The Moche people frequently placed llamas and llama parts in the burials of important people, as offerings or provisions for the afterlife.
Several Incan ceremonial artifacts and temporary shelters uncovered in the surrounding area seem to support this theory.
Terracing, however, was only extensively employed after Incan imperial expansions to fuel their expanding realm.
The advance guard fought a pitched battle with Incan troops in front of the city, but the battle had ended before Pizarro arrived with the rest of the Spanish party.
The Cañari were most notable in having repulsed the Incan invasion with fierce resistance for many years until they fell to Tupac Yupanqui.
The Inca forces greatly out numbered the Spanish, however the Spanish superiority of weapons, tactics and the fact that the most trusted in Inca Generals were in Cusco led to an easy defeat and the capture of the Incan Emperor.
The Incan army withdrew during the night.
The Incan capital city of Vilcabamba was destroyed and depopulated during the Spanish conquest of Peru in 1572.
The primary goal of the Incan economy was substinence, with a system based on reciprocity and exchange of products.
Common combinations with incan
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: