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Inca aqueducts

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The Inca aqueducts refer to any of a series of aqueducts built by the Inca people. The Inca built such structures to increase arable land and provide...

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Inca Empire

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The Inca Empire (also known as the Incan Empire and the Inka Empire), called Tawantinsuyu by its subjects (Quechua for the "Realm of the Four Parts")...

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Tambomachay

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military outpost guarding the approaches to Cusco, as a spa resort for the Incan political elite or imperial baths. It could have also served a religious...

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Andean civilizations

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until they were absorbed into the Inca Empire in 1477. The Inca Empire, or Incan Empire (Quechua: Tawantinsuyu), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian...

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Cusco

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hosting over 2 million visitors a year and providing passage to numerous Incan ruins, such as Machu Picchu, one of the Seven modern wonders of the world...

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Agricultural history of Peru

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and preserving technologies like the aqueducts of Cumbe Mayo (c. 1500 BCE) and the Nazca's underground aqueducts called Puquios (date uncertain), or the...

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Andes

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woodlands is natural, or the result of clearing which began during the Incan period. Regardless, in modern times the clearance has accelerated, and the...

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Vertical archipelago

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creation of microclimates, and therefore produce different kinds of crops. Incan agriculture Karl Polanyi Substantivism Salomon, F. (1987). A North Andean...

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Oriental Despotism

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imperial Rome, the Abbasid Caliphate, imperial China, the Moghul empire, and Incan Peru. Wittfogel further argues that 20th century Marxist-Leninist regimes...

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Choquequirao

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Choquequirao (possibly from Quechua chuqi metal, k'iraw crib, cot) is an Incan site in southern Peru, similar in structure and architecture to Machu Picchu...

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History of Andean South America

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was a political entity of Chimor culture that lasted from 900 up until Incan conquest in 1470. This culture was founded at the site of earlier Moche...

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History of architecture

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Academy. Retrieved 10 August 2015. Choi, Charles Q. (18 April 2007). "Pre-Incan Metallurgy Discovered". Live Science. Retrieved 10 August 2015. Maldonado...

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Arequipa

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for housing the girl sacrificed in the Ampato volcano, as well as various Incan artifacts. Among the scientists who were born and/or conducted their research...

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Noise Pop Festival

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Guillermo, Hakobo, Harderships, Hot Fog, How to Dress Well, Hunx and His Punx, Incan Abraham, J House, Jake Mann and the Upper Hand, Jel, Jenny O., Jhameel,...

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Ushnu

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what he called a fortress. He climbed it and could spot a multitude of Incan soldier in the fields, thus he ordered his four small cannons to be hidden...

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