Machu Picchu - Lost city of the Incas. Английский язык. 11 класс

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MACHU PICCHU –
LOST CITY OF THE
INCAS
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Английский язык, 11 класс
Учитель КОУ ВО «ЦЛПДО»
Головащенко А.А

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Machu Picchu is the ruins of a small city
built in the 1400s by the Inca Indians.

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It is found high in
the Andes mountain
range in central
Peru, South
America. Machu
Picchu is 6,750 feet
above sea level, set
in a tropical forest
between two
mountains.

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The Urubamba River can be seen 3,000 feet
below.

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The city likely served as a country estate for
Inca nobles and as a religious retreat.

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It covered about 5
square miles and
had 200 buildings.
These included a
palace, temples,
storage buildings,
and many smaller
houses for servants.

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Fine craftsmen used
local stone to build
these structures, all
of which were
designed to fit into
the landscape.

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Terraced gardens
were built on the
city’s steep slopes to
grow potatoes and
corn for the
community. Stone
stairways connected
the different levels.

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Only nobles and priests , and their
servants, would have known about
Machu Picchu. By 1527, half of the
Inca population had died of
smallpox. In the next few years,
many more people were killed in
civil wars between rival groups.
When the Spanish conquered Peru in
1532, the city was probably already
abandoned and forgotten.

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The Incas had no written language and the
Spanish never discovered Machu Picchu, so
the city remained forgotten until 1911.

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That year, an American
historian and his local guides
happened upon the ruined city.
A few years later, an article
appeared in the National
Geographic Society’s
magazine. Archeologists and
tourists have been visiting it
ever since.

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Today, it is Peru’s largest tourist attraction
and is visited by 500,000 people each year.

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