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| Preface | |
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| Prologue: The Road to Chachapoyas | |
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| Introduction: Land of the Four Quarters | |
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| The Birth and Growth of Tawantinsuyu | |
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| Wari and Tiwanaku: setting the stage for the Incas | |
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| The pre-imperial Cusco valley | |
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| Inca myths of origin and expansion | |
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| The king list | |
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| Empire-building | |
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| The Principles of Inca Statecraft: Feared Warriors, Generous Rulers | |
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| Organizing an empire | |
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| The memory of things | |
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| War and ritual war as tactics of expansion | |
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| Specialized soldiers: the Ca�ari and Chachapoya | |
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| Mitmaq: a patchwork of interspersed colonies | |
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| Royal generosity, service, and loyalty | |
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| Roads and cities: the infrastructure of rule | |
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| Religion as statecraft | |
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| Ties that bind: kings, kinship, and royal alliances | |
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| The four parts: an empire united by division | |
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| The Wealth of the Empire: Land, Labor, and the Worth of Goods | |
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| Reciprocity as an exchange system | |
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| Seasonal and full-time labor | |
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| Terraces, breweries, and warehouses | |
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| Cloth, shells, silver, and gold | |
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| Religion and Ideology: The Sun, the Moon, the Oracles, the Ancestors | |
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| "Glad words"-the voice of oracles | |
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| Imperial sun temples | |
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| The revered ancestors | |
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| The sacred origins of kingship | |
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| Astronomy and the ritual calendar | |
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| Imperial rites and sacred occasions | |
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| Processions, networks, and order | |
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| The end of imperial religion | |
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| Technology and the Arts: Architects, Potters, Weavers, and Smiths | |
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| Building temples, palaces, terraces, and storehouses | |
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| Storehouses for the realm | |
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| Quarrying and working sacred stones | |
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| Achieving the fit | |
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| Linking the empire: roads and bridges | |
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| Imperial tableware | |
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| Fine garments and emblems of rank | |
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| Metalworking: glitter of the sun, glow of the moon | |
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| Cusco: Capital of the Realm | |
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| The conceptual plan | |
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| Pachakuti the architect? | |
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| A sacred city | |
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| The ceremonial core | |
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| Town palaces | |
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| The golden enclosure | |
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| The royal mummies | |
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| The temple-fortress | |
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| Royal country estates | |
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| Chinchaysuyu: Land of the Setting Sun and the Sacred Shell | |
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| The route of the setting sun | |
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| Vilcaswaman: city at a pivotal junction | |
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| Lodgings before the descent | |
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| A city coded in brilliant colors | |
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| An oracle by the sea | |
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| Inkawasi: a new Cusco | |
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| Southern coastal Chinchaysuyu | |
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| Pachacamac: the lord of earthquakes | |
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| The route of the gods | |
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| A junction on the Qhapaq �an | |
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| Hu�nuco Pampa | |
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| North to Huamachuco | |
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| Cajamarca: strategic entrepot | |
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| The kingdom of Chimor | |
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| Chachapoyas: cloud forest crossroads | |
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| Strategic corridor into Ecuador | |
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| Far northern Tawantinsuyu: land of the sacred shell | |
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| Tumibamba: a new Cusco | |
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| Gateways to the sacred shell | |
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| Chains of forts | |
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| Northernmost Tawantinsuyu | |
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| Antisuyu: The Road to Machu Picchu and Beyond | |
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| Early tropical forest conquests | |
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| A city of stairways | |
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| The gateway to Vilcabamba | |
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| Empire in exile | |
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| Qollasuyu and Kuntisuyu: Herds, Metals, and Mountains of Sacrifice | |
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| Places of imperial origin | |
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| On the road to Qollasuyu | |
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| The lake kingdoms | |
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| The warm foothills and the jungle frontier | |
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| Southern Qollasuyu's mineral wealth | |
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| West through Kuntisuyu | |
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| Qollasuyu in Chile: mines and farmland | |
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| Human offerings to sacred peaks | |
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| Why were Chinchaysuyu and Qollasuyu different? | |
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| The Fall: Bearded Men from across the Sea | |
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| Foreign disease | |
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| A tragic encounter | |
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| The clash of empires | |
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| New-found wealth | |
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| Inca resistance and decline | |
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| Notes | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Sources of Illustrations | |
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| Index | |