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The Incas Exploit Different Niches
Their base Cusco is over 3000 meters above sea level. How did they find enough? How did they get to each other? Yes, so it's very challenging and inhospitable terrain on the face of it. But what the Incas managed to do, and again as Bill has indicated to a lot of this, was building on what previous civilizations had done in the Andes. So because you've got mountainous terrain, you have lots of different altitudes, and that means lots of different microclimates.