The rise and fall of the Inca empire - Gordon McEwan

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Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded\n\nView full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-inca-empire-gordon-mcewan\n\nIt was the western hemisphere's largest empire ever, with a population of nearly 10 million subjects. Yet within 100 years of its rise in the fifteenth century, the Inca Empire would be no more. What happened? Gordon McEwan details the rise and fall of the Inca empire.\n\nLesson by Gordon McEwan, directed by TED-Ed. \nAnimated by Emma Carré - http://emma-carre.tumblr.com/\n\nThank you so much to our patrons for your support! Without you this video would not be possible! Craig Sheldon, Andrew Bosco, Catherine Sverko, Nik Maier, Robert Sukosd, Mark Morris, Tamás Drávai, Adi V, Peter Liu, Leora Allen, Hiroshi Uchiyama, Michal Salman, Julie Cummings-Debrot, Gilly, Ka-Hei Law, Maya Toll, Aleksandar Srbinovski, Jose Mamattah, Ricardo Rendon Cepeda, Renhe Ji, Andrés Melo Gámez, Tim Leistikow, Moonlight, Shawar Khan, Chris, Megan Douglas, Barbara Smalley, Filip Dabrowski, Joe Giamartino, Clair Chen, Vik Nagjee, Karen Goepen-Wee, Della Palacios, Rui Rizzi, Bryan Blankenburg, Bah Becerra, Stephanie Perozo, Marc Bilodeau, Ruby Solorzano, Ivan Tsenov, Claudia Mayfield, Justus Berberich, André Spencer, Pavel Zalevskiy, Yankai Liu, Duo Xu, Ghassan Alhazzaa, Miloš Stevanović, Narat Suchartsunthorn, Joy Love Om, Gi Nam Lee, Shawn Quichocho, Simone Kidner, Anika Westburg, Dale Dualan, Barun Padhy, and Brandy Jones.