
In this world, Francisco Pizarro is either never born or dies before he becomes involved in the discovery and conquest of the Inca Empire. Instead, a slightly more greedy, slightly less pious and slightly more egotistic Conquistador - Juan de Grijalva (Better known to history as Sapa Ti Qirichalva I) led a revolt against Spain, declaring himself the king of the crumbling Inca Empire and hoarding the empires wealth in his new capital just outside of Cusco, Villa Grijalva. Despite the empire crumbling around him, Grijalva desperately attempted to hold on to his new empire and brought thousands of natives to the outskirts of Cusco as slave labourers. Many died but the enormous influx of slaves from the southern andes, and, later - the Amazon, allowed the region to recover from the enormous population losses it faced at the start of the Spanish campaign. Though Spain attempted to invade Juan's Empire, Incan forces were able to hold the line, bolstered by Juans conquistadors, until Portugal intervened in 1561.
This Imperial melting pot was governed by Juans descendants, the legendary Ti Qirichalva dynasty, for some 200 years, until 1754 when a palace coup, inflamed by ethnic tensions between the traditionally priveleged class of the descendants of white conquistadores, the middle classes of Andean natives and the descendants of Amazonian slaves, brought to the Incan Empire throughout the 17th century, toppled the last Ti Qirichalva Emperor - Thin Antu II - and replaced him with the first ethnically Quecha ruler in generations: Túpac Amaru I.
The rebels behind the coup, Antiq Antistu in the Spanish-Quecha creole spoken widely at the time, had started as a faction of Aymara mountain men who had been drafted into the Inca-Poyo war of 1746-1752 and performed outstandingly in the tough mountainous warfare which characterised the conflict. As a result, many were given highly prestigious positions in the capital. The Antiq Antistu however, were fiercely nationalistic, believing that the Empire would only truly prosper under a native leader and that the Ti Qirichalva dynasty would always be corrupt and unjust. (even though both Thin Antu II and his father, Hura Nantus I both spoke Quecha and encouraged egalitarian reform) When an officer, Tupac Amaru, raised the possibility of a coup, they carried it out enthusiastically and within 4 months of the arrival of Alqui Chi-lo into the capital, the Emperor was dead and Tupac Amaru had taken the throne.
Magnanimously, the old nobility, the Qonqui Satato, were accepted back into the fold with some slightly reduced privileges and Amazonians were given far more rights in a new constitution which attempted to balance the ethnic divisions in the nation. Thus Amaru was granted the epithet 'Ul Unithiqador' - the unifier. The Empire unified, Amarus gaze looks west as he readies his forces for an invasion of the newly independent kingdom of the Pampas. But that's another story, for another time.
The Incan Empire
Leader: Tupac Amaru I
Capital:
Qirichalva
UA: Ul Unithaqador
Conquered cities receive a

specialist slot of your choice, which yields +2

happiness and +1

food in the capital when full, or +4

happiness and +2

food if there is a mountain adjacent to the city. Upon entering a

Golden Age,

occupied cities are instantly assimilated.
UU: Antiq Antistu(Replaces Gatling Gun)
The Alqui Chi-lo, is

faster than the Gatling Gun it replaces, and receives +1

range and indirect fire when adjacent to a mountain. Furthermore, if the Alqui Chi-lo is on a hill tile, the nearest city receives +1

happiness.
UI: Qonqui Satato Estate (Unlocked at Chivalry)
The Conqui Satato Estate may only be built adjacent to mountains in friendly territory, and yields +2

food and +2

culture, plus an additional +1

food and +1

culture after researching architecture. Whenever you

conquer a new city, all Conqui Satato Estates grant a burst of

golden age points.
One thing I like about this is the Spanish-Quecha creole. The members of the Ti Qirichalva dynasty all have corrupted Spanish names (Thin Antu being derived from Fernando, and Hura Nantus from Hernandez) and things like the Antiq Antisti, which is a blend of the Quecha word for 'Sun' - Intiq, and the Spanish word for 'Walker' - Andador - but both have been corrupted, with the Spanish 'Ds' giving way to a T, for example. Some are more obvious, of course - Conqui Satato being a derivative of the Spanish 'Conquistador'. The icon is a blend of traditional Aymara and Christian iconography - by 1754 the nation was heavily Christianised, though with some syncretic elements which made up the Holy Church of the Andes. The traditional Aymara weave here leaves space for a cross, adorned with four holes to represent Jesus being nailed to the cross.