- What were the causes of the fall of the Inca Empire?
Diseases, civil war and finally the Spanish raiders.
- What was the legend created after the fall of the Inca Empire?
A legend of a lost city.
- What was the most cultivated food in Machu Pichu?
Corn.
- What did the explorers find in the sealed tomb?
9 Inca skeletons.
- What did the American explorer document?
The city of Machu Pichu.
- What was the first monument that was documented by video?
Machu Pichu.
- How many years (estimative) did the Incas take to build the city?
15 years.
- How did they design the terraces?
They`ve built different layers with different materials to absorb the water instead of allowing it to cause mud slides.
- And how did they take the water out of the city?
Using drains all around it.
- Explain the underground water drain.
They had put the leftover of the rock cutting (rock chips) under the city in order to create a place where the water could go in easily, and the and of this rock chips trail was out of the city, creating an underground drain.
- How did they cut the rocks?
Using different sizes of rocks to mould a bigger rock for the construction.
- What did the corn cause in their teeth?
Tooth loss.
- What do the researchers think that the city was?
A royal hotel.
- What did they do to the king?
They mummified him.
- How did they do it (speculation)?
They would put him in the sun during the day and freeze him during the night.
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