What Indian people ruled Peru before the Spanish took over?
The Incas ruled Peru prior to the Spaniards. The geographic extent of the Maya civilization, known as the Maya area, extended throughout the northern Central American region, including the present-day nations of Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, western Honduras, and the southern Mexican states of Chiapas, Tabasco, and the Yucat?n Peninsula states of Quintana Roo, Campeche and Yucat?n.
