Machu Picchu: The Lost City of the Incas

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Credits:
Host - Simon Whistler
Author - Morris M
Producer - Jennifer Da Silva
Executive Producer - Shell Harris

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[thesaurusakasickakatheomc]

When I visited Machu Picchu years ago, I took a four day hike up the Inca Trail to get there. There's no other way to fully appreciate Machu Picchu than to do so in a way that properly communicates the greatness of the achievement it represents. Anyone who flies straight there is robbing themselves of a crucial part of the experience.

[iainrussell]

'And that pretty much set the tone for the rest of Pizarro's invasion'. Hilariously delivered. You guys carry on being one of the best History channels on Youtube!

[hansnorleaf]

Great video as always, but I do feel that it might have been worth mention that we don't actually know when Machu Picchu was built and some scholars believe that Incas moved into the structures built by a previous culture that might be as old as the ancient Egyptians that built the pyramids. 100 years does seem an incredibly short time for and empire to arise and to suddenly invent such masterful stoneworking and have enough manpower to construct such things all the while they are fighting wars of conquest. Some of these stones weigh a 100 tons. It must have taken 100s of people months to ferry just a single one from where it was quarried to Machu Picchu.

[laurabentzinger]

Thank u simon and co. I appreciate y'all so much. Mean bullies the spanish were back in those times. Like colonist in u.s. to native people . I have never understood y 1 group feels the need to conquer rather than embrace and cooperate. I had heard that the mountains in the ozarks in Southern missouri, usa, are actually the oldest mtn range in us and i was wondering, bc so much, so many tribes so many settlers, perhaps you could do a story about its evolvement. Thank u tiny brain, hee hee.

[ronsbookreview]

I live in Chicago and I'm fine with the weather. Chicago weather builds character.

[Pezled]

So if the Inca had a problem overseeing their new empire because there were only 40, 000 of them - then who was sent to build Macchu Pichu and where did the knowledge come from?

[seti]

The Inca had nothing to do with the megalithic construction in Peru. In fact, it's only a recent, historically speaking, narrative that they are. Originally even the Inca themselves placed the responsibility of the larger more complicated constructions on a culture that predated themselves ( the Inca ). The Inca did fine work and decent stone masonry, and in fact repaired some of the older megalithic works, but with smaller and more crudely refined stone. Examples of this here at 14:10. Lower work - perfectly fitting stone in polygonal construction style with Inca repair work atop with much smaller stone and far less precision. This can be seen repeated all over Peru ( and elsewhere ).

[househendoe]

So Simon hasn't seen the LIDAR scans of the Amazon yet?

[jlee]

listening to this guy say Machu Picchu is the second worst thing I have heard today.

[leemaples]

The Incas didnt build all that. They only tryed to rebuild it. More than one ancient civilization inhabited that place.

[leoncornett]

Wh do they not put roofs on the buildings

[rachdarastrix]

Wait, so there wasn't a skeleton ant eater?

[WhatIsMisophonia]

Ehh the conquest of the Incas was a hell of a lot more complicated than just being routed by muh-advanced-weapons; Even small pox wasn't enough. When you talked about cunning, I presumed you'd talk about the things he did that didn't rely on just smashing people to oblivion with big weapon (hardly cunning), but whatever.

[stuharmsworth]

Simon, you're sounding a little off. Do you have the Rona?

[salvus]

I got auto unsubscribed from this channel for some reason. I was an OG sub starting with first or second video

[lallyoisin]

Spanish seem to get a bad wrap in history books:
Conquistadors, Spanish flu, Spanish inquisition. Columbus was Italian, inquisition was italian and the Flu was cured in Spain not spread by.

Greeks and Romans went to Egypt (history disappeared) italian explorer 'Giuseppe Ferlini' destroyed 40 pyramids in Sudan; wonder who commissioned him? His favourite tool was dynamite.
He was only half the problem; not getting into the rest.
England, Irelands neighbours sent to Ireland by Rome. Same in India. Finished them off with famine too. On arrival it was a land of plenty just like Ireland.
The common denominator apart from the obvious was an attempt to cancel one faith and replace it with another.

Esus /hesus was the sun saviour of the gaels ! Roman influence deleted any record of this! (Nearly)
Smithsonian took over after!
The thousands of mounds and hundreds of pyramids in the Americas and the museums there will show you trains planes and automobiles.

Symbol on Peruvian flag:
Cornucopia – a horn of plenty – is a symbol of wealth,  abundance, fertility and nourishment, highly respected by many ancient cultures including the Celts, whose concept of abundance was the main part of their religion.
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[kylarstern]

Great vid Simon! God i love that place, I'd give my right eye to see it!
Also, to the people that hit the thumbs down, you should come and watch my channel, there's nothing on it at all, i think you guys would love it.

[floridagrown]

you are obnoxiously charming. great video.

[sweetkixx]

Is this the same body language dude...from Observe? Dead ass his twin