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This is Indian South America, land of the ancient Incas and Spanish conquistadores, whose 45 million descendants have always lived in mutually exclusive societies: the white Spanish minority that owns the wealth and the hopeless, anonymous Indian and half-breed majority that exists in squalid slums or labors on Andean...
The Incas and conquistadores mined mainly gold and silver. Now Peru produces everything from antimony to zinc, and the U.S. companies that do the bulk of the mining are in the mood to expand. Marcona Mining Co. plans to triple the capacity of its $20 million iron-ore pelletizing plant...
The Incas called their empire ta-huantinsuyu - the land of the four quar ters - with at least one good reason.
For those who still think of pre-Columbian America in terms of only three major cultures-the Mayans, the Aztecs and the Incas-this book may prove a revelation. Fact is that from Tzinzunt-zan in Mexico to Tiahuanaco in what is now Bolivia, over a span of 4,000...
For archaeologists in Peru, that hidden something has always been the lost city of Vilcabamba, the last great capital of the Incas. As described in the 16th century chronicles, Vilcabamba was believed located somewhere in the southern Peruvian Andes. There, for nearly four decades, some 4,000 Indians lived, waged...