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Machu Picchu’s Inca Past Historians believe Machu Picchu was built at the height of the Inca Empire‚ which dominated western South America in the 15th and 16th centuries. It was abandoned an estimated 100 years after its construction‚ probably around the time the Spanish began their conquest of the mighty pre-Columbian civilization in the 1530s. There is no evidence that the conquistadors ever attacked or even reached the mountaintop citadel‚ however; for this reason‚ some have suggested that the
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Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Instructor: Judith L. Tucker‚ M.S Class: Crim 174 In this video‚ Guns‚ germs‚ and steel are a fascinating perspective taken by Professor of Geography and Physiology at UCLA‚ Jared Diamond. His purpose was to explain why Eurasian civilizations have had such immense success conquering people and land other than their own. Why Europeans were the ones to conquer the world? As Diamond states that questions asked based on guns‚ germs‚ and steel are the biggest‚ most fascinating
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audience‚ a unique and powerful use of sounds‚ and the use of symbolic props and duologue scenes that create dramatic irony. He also employs a number of methods to show the contrasts and similarities of religion‚ culture and philosophy between the Inca and Spanish armies. Shaffer initially uses Martin’s narration to foreshadow the ensuing disastrous events. Old Martin generates the audience’s attention at the very start of the play by saying “This story is about ruin.” This creates dramatic
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Shang dynasty. We can comprehend the different ways in which both craft production and trade further contributed to developing power and to the maintenance of that power in this area of the globe earlier than the imperial hegemony of both empires. In the Incan Empire there were large amounts of cloth that were produced all around. The major cloth threads are spun and interlaced in prehistoric Peru were from the cotton in the valleys. It was also from the wools of llamas‚ alpacas‚ and vicunas in the
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:The Inka Married the Earth: I felt that this reading was very interesting and refreshing. Looking into a culture that conforms to nature instead of destroying it is somewhat of a foreign idea‚ yet makes perfect sense. The Inka practice of grafting structures formed to the land allowed them to "become one" with their natural surroundings. Keeping in mind the Inka beliefs‚ it is quite easy to see and understand why this type of building system was important to the people. The ending results were
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known about this fascinating place‚ who discovered it‚ and what is believed to have happened to its inhabitants so long ago. Some people believed that Machu Picchu was the very birthplace of the Inca people‚ or a place set apart for the chosen Virgins of the Sun‚ or perhaps the last capital of the Inca Empire.3 One theory about the actual use of Machu Picchu was that it was used as an Incan settlement‚ built with the express purpose of protecting Incan aristocracy from attacks.6 There are many theories
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indigenous animal to South America is llamas the Incan people of South America did not have a varied supply of animals; the only indigenous animal which inhabited South America was llamas. The natives of the Inca empire had climate which had a deficit to their people. The weather for the South American Inca were torturous but‚ at times they had nice weather. The only crops that they can only grow in the Andes were amaranth‚ quinoa. The Incan people did not have a lot of free time since there were always
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Guns‚ Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond Prologue 1. Summarize Yali’s question. This requires mentioning race‚ intelligence‚ and development of technology. Yali asks "why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea‚ but we black people had little cargo of our own?" What Yali is asking is about the origins of inequality between countries and societies in the world. He wants to know why people of European descent are rich and powerful while people like him
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music playing of the instruments they had on display was calm and relaxing. I also researched the Inca culture since you came back from your Peru trip raving about it to the class. I found it interesting to learn about their culture. I learned that practically for everyone who was married among the Incas and in the upper classes polygamy was a revered state‚ granted only to those in high favor with the Inca. Concubines were given to men in reward for bravery. The first woman a man married was considered
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