Like an ancient empire (5 letters)

{ Answer }

INCAN

{ Related Clues }

Like some pre-Columbian art
Former native of Machu Picchu
Peruvian village pillaged by Pizarro
Like an old Andean empire
Like the sun god Inti
Llama herder, once
Early dweller in Peru
Quechua, e.g.
Cuzco Indian
Like some ancient ruins
Like the emperor Atahualpa
Like Cuzco's builders
Alpaca tender
Like a bygone empire
Quechua speaker
Like one pre-Columbian civilization
Like some pyramids
Quechua-speaking
Pizarro victim
Andes native
Pachacuti, for one
Of Andean natives
Peruvian of yore
Peruvian sun worshiper
One conquered by Pizarro
Like the buildings at Machu Picchu
Early Peruvian
Like Atahualpa
From an ancient empire

{ Tags }

ancient, andean, atahualpa, columbian, early, empire, god, incan, like, machu, native, old, peru, peruvian, picchu, pizarro, pre, quechua, some, sun, victim

{ Notes }

The answer INCAN is common and appears about once every 300 puzzles.

{ Definition }

INCAN as a noun:

1. (Inca, Inka, Incan) = a member of the small group of Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors to create the great Inca empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s