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Definition of Huayna Capac
1. Noun. The Incan ruler under whom the Incan empire reached its widest extent (died in 1525).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Huayna Capac
Literary usage of Huayna Capac
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Second Part of the Chronicle of Peru by Pedro de Cieza de León, Clements Robert Markham (1883)
"Huayna Capac was not careless, nor did he fail to understand that it would be
... The people, however, were loyal to Huayna Capac, and not only would not ..."
2. Peru by William Hickling Prescott (1900)
"Reign of Huayna Capac.—The Inca Brothers.—Contest for the Empire. ... The war in
this quarter was conducted by his son Huayna Capac, who succeeded his ..."
3. History of the Conquest of Peru: With a Preliminary View of the Civilization by William Hickling Prescott (1883)
"REIGN OP Huayna Capac. THE INCA BROTHERS.—CONTEST FOR THE EMPIRE. ... The war in
this quarter was conducted by his son Huayna Capac, who succeeded his ..."
4. History of the Conquest of Peru ...: With a Preliminary View of the by William Hickling Prescott (1892)
"REIGN OF Huayna Capac.—THE INCA BROTHERS—CONTEST FOR THE EMPIRE. ... The war in
this quarter was conducted by his son Huayna Capac, who succeeded his father ..."
5. Peruvian Antiquities by Mariano Eduardo de Rivero y Ustariz, Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1855)
"Under the dominion of Huayna-Capac, the empire attained to its greatest height
and prosperity, and extended from the river ..."
6. A New General Biographical Dictionary by Hugh James Rose (1853)
"Soon after the death of Huayna Capac, the ambition of the two brothers began to show
... But Huayna Capac, influenced by hig love for the offspring of the ..."
7. Aspects of Nature: In Different Lands and Different Climates; with by Alexander von Humboldt (1850)
"As Huayna Capac died at Quito in 1525, seven years before the arrival of the
Spaniards, he no doubt used, instead of " res atada," the general expres- ..."
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