The incans also become had a prestigious educational system that extolled the benefits of incan civilization .
印加人还有一个颇负盛名的教育系统来宣扬印加文明的利益。
Perhaps the most impressive city of the incan was not its capital , cuzco , but the city machu picchu .
但在印加,也许最吸引人的城市不是首都库斯科,而是马丘比丘城。
In 1438 , pachacuti , ambitious and likely the greatest of the incan emperors , came to the throne .
1438年,雄心勃勃的pachacuti登上王位,他可能是最伟大的印加皇帝。
Built at the height of the incan civilization in what is now peru , machu picchu was rediscovered on 24 july , 1911 , by yale university scholar hiram bingham .
His brutal reign would foreshadow the arrival of the spanish warriors called conquistadors who would plunder and destroy the large , wealthy aztec , incan , and mayan civilizations .
The other five are petra in jordan , peru 's machu picchu , the mountain settlement that symbolises the incan empire , mexico 's mayan ruins at chichen itza , the colosseum in rome and the taj mahal in india .
A city of southern peru at the foot of el misti . Founded in1540on the site of an incan village , it is the commercial center of southern peru and northern bolivia . Population , 108023 .
It was intended as a mountain retreat for the leaders of incan empire and shows great artistry - the abundant dry stone walls entirely built without mortar and the blocks cut so carefully that one can 't insert a knife-blade between the massive blocks .