FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
THE INCA CIVILIZATION
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She decided to honor the Gods because she was very brave.
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The volcano had been polluting water and crops, so she was supposed to make gods happy and help her people.
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She was a criminal and a lazy girl so that was her punishment.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Juanita was killed as a practice of capacocha, or child sacrifice, to appease Inca gods, or Apus. This practice often involves sacrificing a child at a huaca, or ceremonial shrine in a significant spiritual location, in this case Mt. Ampato.
Detailed explanation-2: -The mummy, called La Doncella or The Maiden, is that of a teenage girl who died more than 500 years ago in a ritual sacrifice in the Andes Mountains.
Detailed explanation-3: -The discovery of Mummy Juanita In 1995, American anthropologist Johan Reinhard climbed the volcano Mount Ampato in Arequipa located at about 20, 630 feet above sea level. He, along with his travel partner Miguel Zárate, came across a bundle inside a crater, most likely fallen from an Inca burial site at the summit.
Detailed explanation-4: -Buried and preserved by the permafrost about 7 feet deep was the body of an Inuit woman that Hultin named “Lucy.” Lucy, Hultin would learn, was an obese woman who likely died in her mid-20s due to complications from the 1918 virus. Her lungs were perfectly frozen and preserved in the Alaskan permafrost.