Inca Land
The builders were not in search of fields. There is so little arable land here that every square yard of earth had to be terraced in order to provide food for the inhabitants. They were not looking for comfort or convenience. Safety was their primary consideration. They were sufficiently civilized to practice intensive agriculture, sufficiently skillful to equal the best masonry the world has ever seen, sufficiently ingenious to make delicate bronzes, and sufficiently advanced in art to realize the beauty of simplicity. What could have induced such a people to select this remote fastness of the Andes, with all its disadvantages, as the site f…
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- ISBN: 978-1-387-19119-2
- EAN: 9781387191192
- Produktnummer: 24205939
- Verlag: Lulu.com
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 316 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.4 cm x D2.5 cm 519 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 519
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