Peru

In a region that is tucked down in between the Andes Mountains in Peru, extends between the towns of Pisac and Ollantaytambo, and runs alongside the Vilcanota River, lies the Sacred Valley. The Sacred Valley has come to be a popular destination for tourism in Peru, promoting tours, hikes, and lots of photography. This province is perhaps most famous for its breathtaking geography that simultaneously surrounds its rich history and the present-day lives of the native people who called the Sacred…

to it as this because of the fact that this ancient city is a very intergral part to Peru’s rich culture and history. Its story begins with its construction in the 15th century. It was constructed during the rule of “the two great Incas”, Pachacutec Inca Yupanqui, who ruled from 1438 through 1471, and Tupac Inca Yuanqui, who ruled from 1472 to 1493. Eventually in the sixteenth century spaniards invaded, chasing the Inca out. Centuries later in 1911 an explorer named Hiram Bingham rediscovered…

Have you ever heard of Machu Picchu? Well now is the time to get educated on the wondrous site located in the Andes Mountains. Laying at an impressive 2,430 meters above the Urubamba River, this site was discovered by an American explorer, Hiram Bingham, found it in 1911 after many months spent searching for this ancient Incan wonder. Machu Picchu holds great significance as a travel destination due to its marvelous architecture, rich history, and cultural significance. Dating back thousands…

in the Inca’s trusted leader died of small pox. Pizzaro went back to Panama overjoyed and while he was there him and his partners planned for their next conquest. 1529 when he went back to Spain the queen gave them a license to discover and conquer Peru. Around 1532 when Pizzaro went back to Tumbes he found the whole town empty, but when the people started to “show up” in the town a fight broke out and 6,000 men died in one night. Pizzaro from 1536-1537 was amid the Inca…

HIST 151 / Unit 5 VFT Machu picchu History Machu Picchu which is called Old mountain is 7,875 ft is located in Urubamba Valley in Peru ( northwest coast of Cusco) and also called "The Lost City of the Incas" It symbolizes the Inca Empire. Machu Picchu are assembled around AD 1400 but it became famous for tourist in 1911 because of the American historian Hiram Bingham. In this history, Machu Picchu was asserted a Peruvian Historical Sanctuary in 1981 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site…

Article Analysis Two 1) In ‘The Destruction, Looting and Traffic of the Archaeological Heritage of Peru,’ author Walter Alva focuses on the mining and looting of ancient sites which leads to the destruction of many artifacts present. He also touches on the damage done to the archival record by removing the artifacts from their original context and sending them away to collectors or foreign museums. Alva works towards drawing attention to how collectors and museums play a large part in…

Around the middle of the 1500s.He compiled and sustained a hard writing critique of the Spanish colonial rule in Peru, this book is composed of hundreds of drawings accompanied by excerpts. In this Dialogue Guaman Poma de Ayala imagines himself talking directly to the king of Spain, making his criticism of colonial problems directly to the king’s ear. Guaman states…

years. It also stands in the Andes Mountains and lingers over the Urubamba River. It’s elevated 10,000 feet and has walls that not even a credit card can not slide through, puzzling archaeologists for many years (Schreiber 1). Machu Picchu, located in Peru, is a place filled with amazing artifacts and ruins. The buildings’ architecture and underground waterway infrastructures have baffled many scientists and archaeologists, especially the way the Incas irrigate their crops. This has perplexed…

defeated and killed bywith the Spaniards’s iron swords and advanced technology. This destruction became is was athe start for a new government, new religion, and new culture. The Spanish took over part of Bolivia and made it a part of the Vice-Rroyalty of Peru. Pizarro led an inquisition that demolished the Inca Empire . He killed the Inca Emperor, Huayna Capac and the rest of his people. The Spanish werbecame less interested in the land until the…

pictures. The significances of the ancient city of Machu Picchu is its discovery, history, and it's universal values of the world today. In July of 1911, a famous American explorer named Hiram Bingham began an expedition through the vast jungles of Peru trying to find clues for what he was looking for. With the help of native farmers that lived near the relative location of what the explorer was after, Hiram Bingham crossed the Urubamba River, hiked two thousand feet up a mountain and found…