Machu Picchu Description

After the Spanish regained control of Cuzco, Manco Inca (The Inca Emperor) and his armies retreated to the fortress where he successfully launched attacks against Pizarro based at Cuzco and even managed to defeat the Spanish in an open battle. However, the Inca Emperor knowing that he could not fight a war in which almost everyone one of his people died from fled to the south in the mountains in Vilcabamba. There they founded a new Inca Empire which would remain independent for some decades. Tupac Amaru was the last Inca Emperor, he would later be murdered and the Spanish would take over Vilcabamba, even the Spanish King didn 't like this final destruction of the Inca Empire and did not want his death. However the Viceroy of Peru killed him

The Templo Mayor The Templo Mayor was the most important building to the Mexica peoples. Built in stages over many years, it was a place of worship, sacrifice and also played a significant social-political role to the Aztecs civilizations. Located in the center of Tenochtitlan, what was at that time the capital of the Aztec Empire, and now Mexico City, the Aztecs built an impressive Pyramid with twin temples. This temple has allowed us to have some insight into the lives of the Aztec people. Various people have committed years in attempting to discern these pyramids.

Tenochtitlan The city of Tenochtitlan was built on a lake. It was surrounded by mountains and was also near an active volcano. But this is not what forced them to create their enormous city on a lake. What influenced them was a priest who had a dream and told them to travel and search for a pear cactus with an eagle on it.

The walls were 4ft thick with a marble spire topped

Chaco canyon is an urban center because of its architecture and its high mountain deserts. Chaco canyon built enormous landscape and many storied buildings, they also made road with stairways. Cahokia is a Neolithic village and it was named after its tribe. Many settlers did not grow many mounds which are squares of platforms which they used for homes. These Cahokia’s grew lots of crops and they lived in round villages and

In both the centres of Olmec civilization, at San Lorenzo and then La Venta, numerous large clay platforms are raised. At their top there are believed to have been temples, or perhaps sometimes palaces, built of wood. The concept of climbing up to a place of religious significance becomes the central theme of pre-Columbian architecture. Its natural conclusion is the pyramid, with steps by which priests and pilgrims climb to the top (unlike the smooth-sided tomb pyramids of Egypt). La Venta initiates this long American tradition too.

Also, other World Trade Center buildings are present such as number two, four and seven. The third building is still currently under construction. The finishing touches of the objects present at the location would be the trees and the benches. These two make the site relaxing due to its beautiful scenery and the benches allow the visitors to really just sit back and enjoy their moment of being there. Not a lot of interaction goes on at the site; the most common one would be tourists asking others to take a picture of them and their friends/family with the pools and/or skyscrapers.

There are many fascinating mosaics on the Tower. Some materials used for the design and structure were iron, metal, pink and grey marble coquina stone, friezes, tiles, carved screens, arched entranceway, balconies, and sculpted finals. Some of the themes consist of philosophy, depiction in, the Bible, Nature and humanity. There was also Renaissance -style iron

Inca people were located in modern day Peru, the capital of Cusco. The place that they were located is nicknamed the “lost city”. The place was called the lost city because the city was never found by the Spanish invaders when they conquered the Inca in the 1500’s. By the early 1500’s the Inca people were located 200 miles north to

Monica Quizhpi LTS-1003 The Quipu and the Inca Civilization 19 March 2017 Writing systems were employed by numerous prehistoric civilizations to provide a visible form of a spoken language. In contrast to other primitive civilizations the Inca civilization is the only Bronze Age civilization without a written language. Despite of the lack or absence of a written dialect, the Inca Civilization was able to administer and govern its territory which stretched along Andes Mountains from modern-day Southern Colombia through Ecuador, Peru and Chile over to Argentina and into the Amazon basin through the use and implication of knots and dyed strings.

Machu Picchu proves that anything hidden can be found. This empire that civilians didn’t even know at first existed used to be an incredible world power. It was first established by the

Myths about lost civilizations are recurrent in all cultures because they exert an irresistible romantic attraction on the human soul. The search unfolds first in the Amazonian jungle between Peru and Brazil and in the forests of Peruvian highlands afterwards. The expedition has attracted the attention of dangerous

The earliest sanctuaries included outdoor altars or shrines, as more structures were added to a sanctuary they started to take shape as a home for the gods also called a temple. Several building styles evolved, ranging from simple, one-room structures with columned porches to buildings surrounded entirely by columns. (Stokstad & Cothren, 2013, p.102). Two of the earliest styles in Greek architecture designs emerged during the Archaic period, the Doric and the Ionic order. Some of the most famous and well-preserved structures from this era are temples that built for the gods and have withstood the test of time.

And the brick said, ‘I like an arch’” (Kahn, p 22). The weight of the buildings, all the materials, and the way they are assembled are considered monumental. The pure exposure of the materials and the design is completely open; demonstrating the exact ideas of the architect in every piece of work

Machu Picchu’s story began as the Inca land increased (“Machu” … Customized para 3). Machu Picchu was built on the eastern side of the mountain range of Vilcanota, which was roughly eighty miles away from Cusco (“Machu”... Customized para 6). Furthermore, it was built at a height of ten thousand feet, thus making it a hard place to try and seize if any enemies wished to capture it (“Machu”...