While in Machupicchu our tour guide, Persi, showed the group this massive rock. Even today many people still think that the Inca brought stones and other materials up the mountain to use in the construction of the city. In fact, all the stones that are on Machupicchu were alreay there. The Inca used the mountain and carved their city out of the rocks already there. The city is speculated to have been built around 1350, (this is highly debated), and yet the people abandoned it roughly one hundred years later. Many questions have been brought up on why they would leave this city so quickly after its birth. The city was the only place that the conquistadors never found. Was there plague? Was there famine? Were there political factions that caused a type of civil war? The hypothesis' can go on forever. We do know, however, that the Inca were always building on and improving the city. The stone in this picture represents this. This stone was one which was being worked on right around the time that the city was abandoned. Here we can see that the people used the mountain around them to built their city. In one way, this is environmentally friendly since they did not cut down trees to make their city and their homes. When studying this stone, researchers have discovered that the Inca used tools made from other stones to carve the stone in the way they desired. This step could have been part of a new and exciting section of Machupicchu. Unfortunetly, the city was abandoned, and so was the work on this stone.
I am a full time college student. I study History and hope to work in the field one day. I have worked as a sales associate/lead cashier at my job for almost five years now. I am going to Peru in January and hope to document it as much as possible!
While in Machupicchu our tour guide, Persi, showed the group this massive rock. Even today many people still think that the Inca brought stones and other materials up the mountain to use in the construction of the city. In fact, all the stones that are on Machupicchu were alreay there. The Inca used the mountain and carved their city out of the rocks already there. The city is speculated to have been built around 1350, (this is highly debated), and yet the people abandoned it roughly one hundred years later. Many questions have been brought up on why they would leave this city so quickly after its birth. The city was the only place that the conquistadors never found. Was there plague? Was there famine? Were there political factions that caused a type of civil war? The hypothesis' can go on forever. We do know, however, that the Inca were always building on and improving the city. The stone in this picture represents this. This stone was one which was being worked on right around the time that the city was abandoned. Here we can see that the people used the mountain around them to built their city. In one way, this is environmentally friendly since they did not cut down trees to make their city and their homes. When studying this stone, researchers have discovered that the Inca used tools made from other stones to carve the stone in the way they desired. This step could have been part of a new and exciting section of Machupicchu. Unfortunetly, the city was abandoned, and so was the work on this stone.
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