Machu Picchu
Mike:-
This is Machu
Picchu.
The place has been a World Heritage site/since 1983.
- Yui:
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What are these buildings?
- Mike:
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They are palaces, temples and houses.
- Yui:
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What did the Incas
use/to build them?
- Mike:
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They used big stones.
The stones fit together so
well.
- Yui:
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They had such amazing skills!
- Yui:
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What’s this big stone?
I’ve never seen a shape like this.
- Mike:
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Probably it was a kind
of clock.
It had something to do with the sun.
- Yui:
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Is it one stone?
How did the Incas cut and move it?
- Mike:
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I have no idea.
They didn’t use iron tools or wheels.
- Yui:
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What a mystery!
Yui:-
What are these terraced fields?
- Mike:
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Maybe the Incas used them/to grow corn or potatoes.
- Yui:
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They look so beautiful!
- Mike:
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Yes.
The people always lived/in harmony with nature.
Not only the city/but
also the forest around it/has become a World Heritage
site.
- Yui:
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Why did the Incas build this city here?
- Mike:
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That’s another mystery to solve!