FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
THE INCA CIVILIZATION
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It featured perfectly spherical domes.
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The temples were taller than the Egyptian pyramids.
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Most structures were built from petrified wood.
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The stones were cut so they could fit together perfectly and needed no morter.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The perfectionist Inca stonework is remarkable. This is because they laid the stones so precisely that the use of mortar to hold them together was not necessary. In fact, so perfectly the stones fit, that a piece of paper would not fit between them.
Detailed explanation-2: -Inca architecture is widely known for its fine masonry, which features precisely cut and shaped stones closely fitted without mortar ("dry"). However, despite this fame, most Inca buildings were actually made out of fieldstone and adobe as described above.
Detailed explanation-3: -The most well accepted theory about how the Inca dressed the stones is that they used hammer stones to shape the blocks. Larger hammer stones were used to rough the blocks and smaller stones were used to finish and smooth the blocks.
Detailed explanation-4: -Watkins believes the Incas used gold, dish-shaped, or parabolic, reflectors to concentrate the sun’s energy to carve the rocks with a beam of light. “They had that technology 1, 000 years ago, ” he said. Every Inca temple contained a golden dish, he said.