incas

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incas

The Inca city of Cuzco

2005
Traces the history of the ancient Incan city of Cuzco, Peru, provides descriptions of significant sites in the city, and discusses the people, notable events, and customs of Cuzco.

Step into the-- Inca world

2004
Step back in time to discover the spectacular world of the Incas and their ancestors. The Incas ruled the most spectacular empire South America has ever seen and were the successors to the Chimu gold workers and the Tiwanaku lake people.

Francisco Pizarro and the conquest of the Inca

2000
This is the biography of the Spanish conquistador who led a small but well-trained army along the Pacific coast of unexplored South America and who took control of the Inca empire claiming its wealth for Spain.

Mayas, Incas, and Aztecs

2007
An introduction to the Mayas, Incas, and Aztecs that discusses their beliefs, customs, cities, rulers, and the Spanish overtaking of the civilizations.

Secrets of Lost Empires: Inca

1997
This program explores the sophisticated Inca Civilization and reveals how these remarkable people constructed bridges, buildings, and other amazing technologies thousands of years ago.

Huatya Curi and the five condors

a Huarochir?i myth
1999
Huatya Curi, also known as Potato Eater, son of the mountain spirit Paria Caca, challenges a greedy king and wins a worthy bride, releasing his father from his icy mountain prison.

Incas

2002
Provides an introduction to the history, culture, and civilization of the Incas.

Aztecs & Incas

a guide to the pre-colonized Americas in 1504
2000
Using a travel guide format, describes the Aztec and Inca civilizatons in 1504, including their clothing, food, dwellings, sports, religion, and other aspects of daily life.

Discovering the Inca Ice Maiden

my adventures on Ampato
1998
A first-person account of the 1995 discovery of the over 500-year-old Peruvian ice mummy on Mount Ampato and a description of the subsequent retrieval and scientific study.

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