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Mythologies of the Maniq (NegritoTribe

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The term  Negrito  ( / n ɪ ˈ ɡ r iː t oʊ / ;  lit.   ' little  black person ' ) refers to several diverse ethnic groups who inhabit isolated parts of  Southeast Asia  and the  Andaman Islands . Populations often described as Negrito include: the  Andamanese peoples  (including the  Great Andamanese , the  Onge , the  Jarawa , and the  Sentinelese ) of the Andaman Islands, the  Semang  peoples (among them, the  Batek people ) of  Peninsular Malaysia , the  Maniq people  of  Southern Thailand , as well as the  Aeta  of  Luzon , the  Ati  and  Tumandok  of  Panay , the  Mamanwa  of  Mindanao , and about 30 other officially recognized  ethnic groups in the Philippines .  The word  Negrito,  the Spanish  diminutive  of  negro , is used to mean "little black person." This usage was coined by 16th-century S...
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Mythologies of the Inca Tribe

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The  Inca Empire ,  officially known as the  Realm of the Four Parts  ( Quechua :  Tawantinsuyu   pronounced   [ taˈwantiŋ   ˈsuju ] ,  lit.   ' land of four parts ' ), was the largest empire in  pre-Columbian America .  The administrative, political, and military center of the empire was in the city of  Cusco . The  Inca civilisation  rose from the  Peruvian  highlands sometime in the early  13th century . The Portuguese explorer  Aleixo Garcia  was the first European to reach the Inca Empire in 1524.  Later, in 1532, the  Spanish  began the conquest of the Inca Empire, and by 1572  the last Inca state  was fully conquered.  From 1438 to 1533, the Incas incorporated a large portion of western   South America , centered on the   Andean   Mountains, using conquest and peaceful assimilation, among other methods. At its largest, the empire joined moder...
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