Questions About the Documentary

• 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.