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2) The Incas
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112 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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English
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Discusses the Incas, their government, politics, religion, military organization, decline, extinction, and legacy.
3) Machu Picchu
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English
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Examines the exploration and study of Machu Picchu. Explores the lives of the site's builders, traces its discovery and scientific investigation, and discusses future study and conservation efforts.
4) The Incas
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xxiii, 389 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm
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English
6) Machu Picchu
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24 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 x 29 cm.
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Español
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512 : color illustrations, color maps ; 22 cm
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English
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This is a comprehensive encyclopedia of the Incas and other ancient people of South America with more than 1000 photographs. It provides an exploration of the political and social history, art, architecture and mythology of the lost cultures of the Andes including the Paracas, Chavin, Nazca, Moche, Wari, Lambayeque-Sipan, Tiwanaku, Chimu and Inca.
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1 videodisc (54 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Centuries ago, they performed miraculously technical brain surgery, built modern irrigation canals, made agricultural discoveries still used by modern man, and were master builders ... the Incas were mysterious people, once ruling half of South America.
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1 videodisc (53 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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History reports that the mighty Inca were swiftly wiped out by a small band of Conquistadors, but new evidence is being unearthed that may help rewrite history. Uncovered remains of those who died in battle along with recently discovered documents suggest that even after forming military alliances with thousands of Indian mercenaries, it took the Spanish many years to defeat the Inca Empire.
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xii, 330 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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English
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Handbook to Life in the Inca World is a comprehensive and accessible examination of the Inca Empire, which stretched across the Andes Mountains in Peru from the 13th century until the invasion of the Spanish in the 16th century. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, art history, ethnography, and 16th-century Spanish chronicles, this handbook offers a readable, informative, and easy-to-navigate format that explains how the Inca Empire became such an...
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1 videodisc (approximately 56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"In the years since Machu Picchu was discovered by Hiram Bingham in 1911, there have been countless theories about this Lost city of the Incas, yet it remains an enigma. NOVA joins a new generation of archaeologists as they probe areas of Machu Picchu that haven't been touched since the time of the Incas and unearth burials of the people who built the sacred site"--Container.
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128 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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English
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The Incas left no written records, but the archaeological remains and Spanish accounts paint a picture of a well-ordered, vast empire where everyone knew their role in society, and no one went hungry or uncared-for. In the mountains of Peru and Ecuador, traces of Inca culture remain today in the road system that winds through the Andes, where people practice a religion that mixes the Catholicism of the Spanish conquerors with the animism of the Incas....
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