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Ecuador
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north of Peru, south of Colombia, and east of the Atlantic Ocean
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maize
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corn
grown by farmers in Moche |
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Moche
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place where a major urban center arose amid the irrigated fields in the Moche river valley
People led lives centered around warfare no written things, but had pottery for artifacts collapsed in 700 AD - replaced by Inca |
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Inca
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empire who destroyed the people in Moche
1300s - they were a small community in Cuzco 1440s - Pachacuti led a campaign and controlled the entire region (Ecuador, central Chile, and the edge of the Amazon basin - all of the Andes mountain region) Had 12 million people at its height |
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Pachacuti
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leader who started the Inca empire in the 1440s after launching a campaign that brought the entire area under his control
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Machu Picchu
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an abandoned city of the Inca
its elevation is 8000 feet and it was built on a lofty hill top surrounded by mountain peaks above the Urubamba River small city - had 200 people has "hitching post of the sun" - which is an observatory |
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Urubama River
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north of Machu Picchu, east of Moche, and Northeast of Lima
river that comes off the Amazon river Macchu Picchu built in the mountain peaks above it |
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quipu
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record system that used knotted strings
invented by the Inca |
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Francisco Pizarro
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in 1531, he brought 180 men to South America armed with steel weaons, gunpowder, and horses
they brought smallpox to the Inca and later, a civil war broke out after the emperor's death This left Atahuallpa (the brother who took control) in charge, who was executed by Francisco Then, Pizarro marched into Cuzco, and captured the Inca capital by 1535, had set up the capital Lima, a colony of Spain |
