Title: If....
If I were given a chance to choose and live in one of lost
cities, it would be Machu Picchu. The reason is it beautiful place to live in.
people would not agree with the choice I made.
I love to live in a green and more natural place. It is hard to believe
it because all my live I grew up in the city. Living in a peaceful environment
must be nice like Machu Picchu. It is a city that is located high in the Andes
Mountains in Peru. It might be a little too cold but it is peaceful,
considering that the people who lived there are religious. It lies 43 miles northwest
of Cuzco at the top of a ridge. It was built between 1460 and 1470 AD by
Pachuacuti Inca Yupanqui. It has an altitude of 8000 feet. It is compromised 200
buildings and about 1200 people lived in and around Machu Picchu. Many of them
were women, children and priests. The people there planted corps, such as potatoes
and maize. To get the highest yield possible, they used advanced terracing and
irrigation methods to reduce erosion and increase the area available for
cultivation. However, it probably did not produce a large enough surplus to export
agricultural products to Cuzco, the Incan capital. In 1527, fifty present of
the population were infected and killed by smallpox. The government started to collapse
and Machu Picchu fell into civil war. Then Machu Picchu was already forgotten
in 1532. It was rediscovered by Professor Hiram Bingham in 1911. He was searching
for the undiscovered last stronghold of the Incan empire and stumbled upon
Machu Picchu. It is completely not forgotten because few people still live
there.
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