epub |eng | 2023-06-16 | Author:Wellman, Billy

Pedro de Alvarado in Guatemala Parallel to the expeditions in Yucatán, the Spanish were also active in other parts of Central America. For the conquistadors, getting to previously unknown places ...

epub |eng | 2023-12-27 | Author:William, Charles

The Architectural Symphony Architecture served as the great conductor of the Inca's creative expression in the high-altitude kingdoms of Inca Empire. Pottery and textiles might have reflected the motifs at ...

epub |eng | | Author:Felipe Fernández-Armesto

In 1738 the military engineer Juan de Gayangos reported that Puerto Cabello could accommodate one hundred ships. The figure was probably realistic: some sources claimed it was big enough for ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Cristobel de Molina [Molina, Cristobel de]

To perform this festival, they would bring to the plaza all the mentioned huacas and the bodies of the deceased Inca kings and queens to drink with them, placing those ...

pdf | | 2023-01-30 | Author:Marta Alfonso-Durruty and Deborah E. Blom (Editors)

epub |eng | 2011-10-24 | Author:John Pemberton

Atahuallpa and The Ransom Room The Inca king rapidly recovered his composure after the disaster at Cajamarca. He knew that what the Spanish really lusted after was gold, and he ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-27 | Author:Unknown

* * * They climbed up the Ancestor Mountain by a narrow, poorly paved path. Both Katari and Gabriel bore a heavy stone, wrapped in a manta, on their backs. ...

epub |eng | 2020-12-17 | Author:Lewis Spence, William Sewell, Gilbert James [Lewis Spence, William Sewell, Gilbert James]

Quetzalcoatl among the Maya One of the most obvious of the mythological relationships between the Maya and Nahua is exhibited in the Maya cult of the god Quetzalcoatl. It seems ...

pdf | | 2012-01-10 | Author:Molina & Cristóbal de & Cantarutti & Gabriel E. & Smith-Oka & Vania & Bauer & Brian S.

epub |eng | 2014-05-08 | Author:Hiram Bingham [Bingham, Hiram]

The Urubamba Canyon A reason for the safety of the Incas in Uilcapampa. The fugitives returned to Cuzco and reported their misfortune. The importance of the reverse will be better ...

epub |eng | 2012-03-16 | Author:Hugh Thomson [THOMSON, HUGH]

OLLANTAYTAMBO COMING BACK INTO CUZCO BUS STATION first thing in the morning after a night on the coach had a nightmarish quality. I’d come thousands of miles and was dirty, ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2017-12-01 | Author:Captivating History [History, Captivating]

Chapter 10 – Tour of the Greatest Inca Sights The environment of the area that used to be the ancient Inca Empire is truly spectacular. If you take a road ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2015-07-17 | Author:Hiram Bingham [Bingham, Hiram]

So we went back up the Hill of Roses to make further studies and to do some excavating. On the south side of the hilltop, opposite the long palace, is ...

epub |eng, eng | 2015-06-19 | Author:Urton, Gary,von Hagen, Adriana & Adriana von Hagen [Urton, Gary & Hagen, Adriana von]

HUACA Often glossed as “sacred place,” huaca is a term used frequently by the Spanish chroniclers to invoke a concept that they clearly understood to be a core principle, or ...