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Why the Incas fell.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
SIR: In his wonderfully evocative article "Imagining Machu Picchu" (January-February 2006), Nicholas Hasluck reiterates the widely held view that the Inca empire fell so suddenly to Pizarro and his few men, because their rule had been weakened by civil war and the Spaniards were better armed. Jared Diamond recently also pinned the explanation on these same factors, and added the awe-inspiring horse.
Local oral lore on the ground in Peru and the detailed accounts of historians often place the main explanation less on these physical causes and more on the Incas' inferior institutions. The communistic Inca rule was harshly repressive; the flayed skins of regime opponents decorated the streets in the capital Cuzco like flags, and their fields were made permanently infertile by loads of salt. An institution that was even more decisive for the implosion of Inca rule was the practice of interning all beautiful girls in closed houses ...
- Explore the puzzle of Machu Picchu.
- News wire article from: Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL) June 1, 2001 700+ words
...challenging elevation of nearly 9,000 feet _ Machu Picchu sits concealed on a semi-tropical...Hiram Bingham discovered it in 1911. Machu Picchu's precise origins still stymie historians...from Cuzco, the customary gateway to Machu Picchu. But that's as the condor flies...
- Explore the puzzle of Machu Picchu.(The Orlando Sentinel)
- News wire article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Bleecker, Arline June 4, 2001 700+ words
...challenging elevation of nearly 9,000 feet _ Machu Picchu sits concealed on a semi-tropical...Hiram Bingham discovered it in 1911. Machu Picchu's precise origins still stymie historians...from Cuzco, the customary gateway to Machu Picchu. But that's as the condor flies...
- Machu Picchu: uncovered.(Cover Story)
- Magazine article from: Weekly Reader, Senior Edition (including Science Spin) April 4, 2003 700+ words
...ruins were actually that of the lost city of Machu Picchu. Bingham returned to Machu Picchu several times over years. He was sure the...god. Modern archaeologists now say that Machu Picchu was not a spiritual center but a vacation...
- Machu Picchu: mystery solved!(The Modern Wonders)
- Magazine article from: Faces: People, Places, and Cultures Salazar, Lucy C. July 1, 2008 700+ words
Finally, the answer to "What's Machu Picchu?" The mystery that had surrounded Machu Picchu's construction, function, and abandonment...the lower Urubamba Valley. Royals at Play Machu Picchu bears a striking similarity to other royal...
- Machu Picchu: unveiling the mystery of the Incas.(Archaeology and...
- Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Bray, Tamara L. June 1, 2005 700+ words
...amp; LUCY C. SALAZAR (eds). Machu Picchu: unveiling the mystery of the Incas...collections from the renowned Peruvian site of Machu Picchu recovered in the early twentieth century...help to contextualize the Peabody's Machu Picchu collection both historically and with...
- Exploring Machu Picchu, lost city of the Incas hundreds of years ago the Incas...
- Magazine article from: Highlights for Children Zatkin, Christy Hawes November 1, 2004 700+ words
...Andes, I stared down at the ruins of Machu Picchu, the mysterious lost city of the Incas...fit together perfectly. Everywhere in Machu Picchu, the stones are crafted with the talent...sure, but all the important rooms at Machu Picchu have huge lintels. I tried to imagine...
- Lost city: a traveling museum exhibits unravels the mysteries of Machu...
- Magazine article from: Weekly Reader, Edition 4 (including Science Spin) November 5, 2004 700+ words
...Jungle Treasure Unearthing Secrets of Machu Picchu Hiram Bingham lived for adventure...uncovered ruins from the "lost city" of Machu Picchu (MAH-choo PEE-choo). Old Peak...remained hidden for more than 400 years. Machu Picchu, which lies high atop a peak, is an...
- Machu Picchu's slide: A report says this great Inca ruin is going downhill ......
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor May 4, 2001 700+ words
Byline: Howard LaFranchi Is Machu Picchu falling? A team of Japanese geologists...grande dame of pre-Columbian ruins? Machu Picchu - the great Inca site built before the...University of Kyoto reports that part of Machu Picchu is sliding downhill at a rate of one...
- Machu Picchu: visiting and shooting Peru's Lost City.
- Magazine article from: PSA Journal Vannoy, Dana April 1, 2002 700+ words
...visitors to the archaeological wonder of Machu Picchu feel some sense of mystery and awe about...translate the beauty and the mystery of Machu Picchu to images that justify it, and miss...canceled because of weather cut my visit to Machu Picchu from two days to one, but I feel ...
- Tourists help, harm Peru's Machu Picchu; 'Lost City of the Incas' could end up...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor May 11, 2005 700+ words
...Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor MACHU PICCHU, PERU -- As the sun rises over the ruins of Machu Picchu, the "Lost City of the Incas," the...swirling rapids of the Urubamba River. Machu Picchu - 32,000 acres of houses, temples...
Source: HighBeam Research, Why the Incas fell.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)