12. The Inca - Cities in the Cloud
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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Cuzco, the New Capital of the Incas
Houses of this time were built from rough stones, carved into well fitted, but irregular shapes. They thatched with a kind of mountain grass known as icu which grows up to a metre tall in the mountains above an altitude of three and a half kilometers. The name of the new inca capital, cuzco, comes from the kecha name cuzku wanka, or the rock of the owl. It lay right at the point where the territories of the wari and the tiwanaku had crossed meaning it benefited from both of their influences.
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