Show notes
High up on the craggy peaks of the Urubamba Canyon, a lost city lies wreathed in cloud.In this episode, we explore the mountains of the Andes, and tell the story of the Inca Empire. Find out how these mountain people built the largest empire in the Western Hemipshere, in one of the toughest terrains on earth. With Inca poetry, Quechuan hymns and authentic Andean instruments, discover the unique culture of the Inca.
Highlighted moments
The stone walls of the terraces absorb the heat of the sun during the day and then slowly release it into the earth throughout the night when frosts in the mountains could be severe.
“Before the Inca had even set eyes on a single European, the contact of the two worlds had unleashed chaos.”
“Sometime in the 1530s, as the Inca empire collapsed, the people who operated it as a royal retreat or a coca plantation stopped receiving supplies from the rest of the empire. They simply left it behind to crumble into the hillside.”
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