The rise and fall of the Inca empire - Gordon McEwan
Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-inca-empire-gordon-mcewan It was the western hemisphere's largest...
========== It was the Western Hemisphereâs
largest empire ever,with a population
of nearly 10 million subjects.Over an area of more
than 900,000 square kilometers,its people built massive
administrative centers,temples, and extensive road
and canal systems.They did so in an inhospitable,
extreme terrain,all without the use of wheels,
horses, iron, or even written language.Yet within 100 years of its rise
in the fifteenth century,the Inca Empire would be no more.According to legend,the ancestors of the Inca rulers
were created by the sun god Inti,and they emerged
from a cave called Tambo Toco.Leading four brothers
and four sisters was Ayar Manco,who carried a golden staff
with instructionsto find the place where
it would sink into the ground,showing fertile soi...
