Peru

Tourists to Machu Picchu Machu Picchu, a once-great Inca city deserted in the Andes Mountain range, is a highly desirable tourist location (Damon 7). Shrouded with mystery and an eerie air, its discovery, exploration, and significance have been both researched and debated upon. Near the edge of the Amazon Basin, it sits atop the mountain as a testimony to the Inca’s architecture and art. Efforts are made to protect this highly significant city frozen in time (UNESCO 8). Discovery In July of…

first expedition he decided to join up with fellow conquistador named Diego de Almagro. The two Conquistadores decided to make two expeditions for the search for spanish gold among the Aztecs. Pizarro wanted to go to Peru once more to find even new things so he went straight to the Governor of Panama. Unfortunately the Governor had lost faith in Pizarro. Afterwards Pizarro went directly to spain. He made his case to the king…

Nazca people in southern Peru developed casting to craft ceremonious ornaments. The people of the Chimu empire would later develop more advanced technical skills, such as combining metals to make alloys and plating more common metals with gold. Their advances in technology were shared with the Incas who would be some of the first natives to meet the Spanish upon their arrival in the 16th century. Gold has long been present and significant in the culture and economics…

important tourist attraction in Peru and one of the world's most impressive archaeological and civil engineering sites. It is one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. Machu Picchu is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, both cultural and natural. Machu Picchu is located high in the Peruvian Andes. It is situated at 2,430 m above sea-level, in the middle of a tropical mountain forest. The City was discovered in 1911 by Hiram Bingham, the American Yale professor. Bingham arrived in Peru with a small…

he held parties, religious ceremonies, and much more. The city holds so much information that’s just waiting to be discovered. Machu Picchu is not just a city, but it is a miracle of architecture and ingenuity. Machu Picchu is an ancient city in Peru that dates as far back as the mid-fourteen hundreds. It’s about a four days’ walk from the Inca capital of Cusco. The completely mortar-free limestone marvel was built at the height of the Incan Empire; then abandoned one hundred years later. One…

The Inca Empire, located in Peru, was the last standing empire in South America. The Incas were South American Indians also known as natives to the land. At the time their capital was called Cuzco, which lasted for three hundred years. Cuzco is also a modern city in Peru. After the rule of their fourth emperor, many tribes settled in the Andes Mountains. Each tribe was individually conquered, requiring them to adapt to the Inca ways of life. After the Indian tribes converted, they combined…

Inca civilization The Inca civilization arrived in Peru between 1400 and 1533 CE. Their empire extended across western South America from Quito in the north to Santiago in the south, making it the largest empire ever seen in the Americas and the largest in the world at that time. The Incas conquered people and exploited landscapes such as plains, mountains, deserts, and tropical jungle. Out of the ten million people living in the Inca Empire at the time of the Spanish conquest in 1533, the…

A little civilization ruled the northern coast of Peru from 1st to the 8th century CE, the people were called the Moche, also called Mochica (Cartwright, 2014). Each of the major Moche settlements seemed to have rulers who held religious and political power, the Moche's were not an Empire by more of independent societies ruled by common cultural features. They built huge and pyramids that are still here today, that now look eroded, so now they just look like natural hills. The pyramids that are…

On July 24, 1911, American archeologist Hiram Bingham gets his first look at Machu Picchu, an ancient Inca settlement in Peru that is now one of the world top tourist destination. Machu Picchu was tucked away in the rocky countryside northwest of Cuzco, Machu Picchu is believed to have been a summer retreat for the Inca leaders. The people that lived in Machu Picchu were mostly wiped out by the Spanish invaders in the 16th century. For hundreds of years afterwards it hasn’t been seen or heard…

like he belonged. This play was important to me because even though Benjamin is fully American, he identified as a Chinese-American. He accepted his two cultural upbringings. I related to this passage with my own experiences walking through Lima, Peru. I remember as I walked down Miraflores, I was drowned in multiple vendors trying to catch my attention. Turning the corner of each street, I caught a new scent of pure Peruvian food. I recall the countless of stray dogs trying to find scraps of…