🔆 Machu Picchu: Inca Marvel in News
📍 Why in Focus?
✅ Nearly 1,000 tourists stranded after protests suspended train services to Machu Picchu, Peru.
✅ Protests linked to a new bus company contract.
📍 About Machu Picchu
✅ 15th-century Inca citadel, built by Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui as royal retreat.
✅ Located 80 km NW of Cusco, Andes Mountains, Peru; altitude 2,350 m.
✅ Rediscovered in 1911 by Hiram Bingham; UNESCO World Heritage Site (1983); one of New Seven Wonders of the World.
✅ Features: Temple of the Sun, Temple of Three Windows, Intihuatana Stone, terraces, aqueducts, palaces, tombs.
✅ Attracts 4,500 visitors daily, Peru’s most important tourist site.
📍 About the Inca Civilization
✅ Timeline: c. 1400–1533 CE; largest empire in the Americas.
✅ Achievements: Stone masonry, terraced farming, aqueducts.
✅ Religion: Worshipped Sun, Moon, nature; mix of animism & fetishism.
✅ Society: Highly stratified with emperor-led aristocracy.
✨ #WorldHeritage #art_and_culture
📍 Why in Focus?
✅ Nearly 1,000 tourists stranded after protests suspended train services to Machu Picchu, Peru.
✅ Protests linked to a new bus company contract.
📍 About Machu Picchu
✅ 15th-century Inca citadel, built by Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui as royal retreat.
✅ Located 80 km NW of Cusco, Andes Mountains, Peru; altitude 2,350 m.
✅ Rediscovered in 1911 by Hiram Bingham; UNESCO World Heritage Site (1983); one of New Seven Wonders of the World.
✅ Features: Temple of the Sun, Temple of Three Windows, Intihuatana Stone, terraces, aqueducts, palaces, tombs.
✅ Attracts 4,500 visitors daily, Peru’s most important tourist site.
📍 About the Inca Civilization
✅ Timeline: c. 1400–1533 CE; largest empire in the Americas.
✅ Achievements: Stone masonry, terraced farming, aqueducts.
✅ Religion: Worshipped Sun, Moon, nature; mix of animism & fetishism.
✅ Society: Highly stratified with emperor-led aristocracy.
✅ Prelims Question:
Machu Picchu, recently in news, was built by:
A. Mayans
B. Incas
C. Aztecs
D. Olmecs
Ans: B
✅ Mains Question:
“Machu Picchu reflects the architectural brilliance and socio-religious worldview of the Inca civilization. Discuss its historical and cultural significance.” (150 words)
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