12. The Inca - Cities in the Cloud
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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The Death of Ninan Kuyusi
Within a few weeks, the emperor's mummified body began its two thousand kilometer journeys south to cuzco. His lords carried him on a throne, bound tightly in white cloth. The procession travelled along the great chinchasuyo road that separated the coastal plains and the towering mountains above. In some areas, as many as nine out of every ten people died in one moment of lucidity. Within a year, the inca realm would be torn by a civil war that would result in the deaths of tens of thousands of its people. And it 's in his hands that the inca empire would finally crumble into ash and flame.
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