Showing posts with label Pre-Inca. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pre-Inca. Show all posts

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Inca and Pre-Inca Musical instruments, Waylla Kepa Project - Video

National Museum of the Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Peru: 2000 pieces that make up the collection of pre-Hispanic musical instruments.

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Inca and Pre-Inca Musical instruments, Waylla Quepa Project - Video.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Inca and Pre-Incas Mind Maps Index

A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea. Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, decision making, and writing.

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Inca and Pre-Incas Mind Maps Index.
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Inca and Pre-Incas Mind Maps

Monday, November 30, 2009

Pre-Inca Civilizations - Video

Pre-Columbian is used especially often in the context of the great indigenous civilizations of the Americas, such as those of Mesoamerica (the Olmec, the Toltec, the Teotihuacano, the Zapotec, the Mixtec, the Aztec, and the Maya) and the Andes (Inca, Moche, Chibcha, CaƱaris).
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Pre-Inca Civilizations - Video.
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Pre-Inca Civilizations

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Ceramics of Ancient Peru, Interactive Mind Map

When Europeans first entered the Andean area in the early part of the sixteenth century, they encountered the Inca Empire, a vast and powerful political domain that incorporated the largest area in South America ever to have been brought under one ruler.

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Ceramics of Ancient Peru, Interactive Mind Map.
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Ceramics of Ancient Peru, Interactive Mind Map

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Pre-Inca Periods

Mind Map
This is a mind map of Cultural periods of Peru used by some archaeologists studying the area. Most of the cultures of the Late Horizon and some of the cultures of the Late Intermediate joined the Inca empire by 1493, but the period ends in 1534 because that marks the fall of the Inca empire after the Spanish conquest.
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Pre-Inca Periods Mind Map.
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incas.homestead.com/pre_inca_periods.htm.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

The Thirteen Towers of Chankillo, Peru


Chankillo or Chanquillo is an ancient monument complex in the Peruvian coastal desert. The ruins include the hilltop Chankillo Castillo, the nearby Thirteen Towers and residential and gathering areas. The Thirteen Towers were proposed to have been a solar observatory built in the 4th century BC. in the March 2, 2007, issue of Science.


The Thirteen Towers of Chankillo, Peru.
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gogeometry.com/incas/chankillo_solar_observatory.html.