Instead of going home right away, we decided to stay a little longer in South America and hike the Inca Trail
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| Welcome to Peru!! Instead of going home right away, we decided to stay a little longer in South America and hike the Inca Trail |
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| Watch for the scenery and then compare it to the Midwest | |||||||||||||||||||
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| This is our group: Eric, Nick, Jenny, Dan, Judy, Nick, Dave and me. We have a nice dinner with the smell of firewood, our first night in Cuzco. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Cathedral at the main square in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire. Unfortunately the Spainiards did just see the gold. Although the Incas had something more precious: knowledge (they were leading in astronomy, agriculture, politics, construction and more) they were behind in other areas (guns, information transmission, writing and more). Their knowledge of warfare was great for Southamerica, but way behind compared to Eurasia: They havn't seen spanish horses and black powder. So their manpower was tricked through the unknown.. | |||||||||||||||||||
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