The article on Peru says the Incas were a
warlike tribe living in a semiarid region of Peru before moving into the Cuzco
area in 1100 AD.
The Aymara Natives may have been a warlike tribe
living in that semiarid region before moving into the Cuzco Valley, but the
Incas and the Aymara were not the same people. We refer to the empire as Inca
not Aymara, because they were two different peoples, and the Incas were the
undisputed rulers. Garcilaso de la Vega specifically states that just as the
Spanish are not Indians, his mother and her people were not Indians, even though
his mother and her people were also not Spanish. He really spelled it out that
the Incas were a separate race from both the Native Americans and the Spanish.
Everywhere he refers to the Aymara, he refers to them as "Indians."