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Ariel Durant wrote, “A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.” The Inca Civil War was the beginning of the downfall of the largest civilization in the Americas. The Inca Civil War lasted from 1529 until April 1532 in Peru and Ecuador. The administrative, political, and military center of the empire was located in Cuzco (modern-day Peru). The Inca civilization arose from the highlands of Peru sometime in the early 13th century. The Incas had no

The country I am doing is Peru. Peru happens to be my home country. I was Born there and lived there for about four years. On the map of the world, Peru is located in the west of South America, and has borders with Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia and Chile. In 1532, a man by the name of Francisco Pizarro, found and conquered Peru, but he was not the first man to be on Peru. According to, www.biography.com, “Incas have been living on peru since the beginning of time.” The flag of Peru, is one of

The Peru-Chile Trench, also known as the Atacama Trench, is an oceanic trench in the eastern Pacific Ocean. It’s a fault line that is 100 miles off the coast of Peru and Chile, and also happens to be the fault line that we were assigned. The Peru-Chile Trench reaches a maximum depth of 26,460 ft below sea level in Richard Deep and is approximately 3,666 miles long, meaning that the width is 40 miles and it covers an expanse of about 228,000 square miles. The trench marks the subduction of the Nazca

Touching the Void is a book about two guys, by the names of Joe and Simon. They are professional rock and mountain climbers. They are the best of the best and decide to team up to take on the Silu Grande. One of the biggest mountains in the world. It is that decision they make that will change their lives forever. They start the climb very well, it is until joey breaks his leg halfway up the mountain. With very little communication joe is left in the open. Simon has to make a hard decision and cut

The most significant physical geographical factor that contributed to the development of the ancient South American society of the Incas was the Andes Mountains. The Inca Empire had villages and cities throughout the Andes Mountains. Some of these settlements were as low as sea level and their capital, Cusco, was at an altitude of 11,200 feet. The Andes are considered some of the longest and highest mountain ranges. In fact it’s tallest peak, Mount Aconcaqua, in Argentina, tops out at 22,841 feet

living to date lively. The exhibition hall consists of a lot of section introducing from the history of Andes before emerging of the Inca Empire to the pictures of indigenous Andean people. Since the visitors need to take a long time to look the exhibition, they could feel as if they are walking on The Qhapaq Ñan (The Great Inca Road) and the shape of the hall is like a maize and there are today’s Andes people’s lots of pictures taken at religious festival and pictures of people in traditional clothes

The film documents many of the fights and journeys following the exile of Bolivar including a trek across the Andes Mountain Range in order to attack the Spaniards in Bolivia. After these journeys, the film demonstrates the political upheaval and consternation that arose due to the self-centered ambition of some political figures opposing a unified South America

no significant rainfall for 400 years, between the 1570s and the early 1970s. Here you won 't find a single living thing – no animals and not a single cactus, hardscrabble weed or even a blade of grass. Rain almost never falls here, thanks to the Andes and Chilean Coast mountain ranges, which block clouds from moving across the 41,000-square-mile desert from the east and west, respectively. The Humboldt Current, swirling just offshore in the Pacific, also creates an inversion layer of cool air that

Introduction The border dispute along the Andean mountains’ Cordillera del Condor between Ecuador and Peru lasted nearly two hundred years, and remains one of the longest-standing border disputes in the Western Hemisphere. It’s hard-won resolution also stands today as one of the best examples of creative dispute resolution between two sovereign nation-states. In fact, the most hotly discussed characteristics of the conflict centers on attempting to explain how and why, after decades of disagreement

Introduction Bolivia is located in the heart of South America, with the Andes Mountains surrounding north to south throughout the country and the famous Lake Titicaca is the highest body of water in the world. They have a population of about 10 million people, making Bolivia one of the least populated nations in the Western Hemisphere. Bolivia is a landlocked nation, meaning they are entirely enclosed by land, boarded by Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, and Peru. Bolivia is also known for being