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BRIEF HISTORICAL AND TRADITIONAL NOTES ON CUZCO

Cuzco, iacco1 ding to the views of modern science, was not only

.the capital of .the Empire of TaJma'lltinsuyu (neither is it yet pos–

sible to accept the version <Jf Ga•rcilaso ·and the greater part of

the Sprunish writers to the effect tha<t before tbeir time 1lhere

existed neitber eivilizaition nor political and socºal

orga~ation)

but, to tihe .contrary it was the former center of ulrture superior

to the Ineaic even

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h •d elopEl by :peoiples of the same race,

the QUECHUA.

Iwcaic civilization w<>ulld tl erefore indicatle as struted

b.y

Montesines -

ersinns are fou11d in great p-art justified in

modern c.riticisms, a re°Stol'atfon of a primiiive Empire which five

or six centuríes ¡prior to the time of Mane.o wa'S

~ntirely ~estroyed

by invwsioJl or by foreign •bar.baric_tri'bes, poss1bl'.Y by tilie s!llIIle

· destroyers <>f Tihuanaéu.

Pre-Incaic Period: - The remains of Sa.ccsaihuamán, H'atun·

Rumiyocc, Ccoricancha, and roads of San Francisco, in

and

tihe rema:ins of Machu Picchu, Ollantaitambo a'Ild otihera in the

provinces e1early indicate by their remote antiquity, a pi:!riod

many eenturies priOT to th€ llth or 12th century, at which time

the Incaic Empire was f.ounded.

Incas availed themselves fol"

tiheiir works of co11struction and monUIJllents a grea·t part of that

which haid been left by t·he;ir remote aneestors., whose types they

tried to <WI>Y - arran.gtl1J1:g OT adiwpting to their necessities ami

eh<araeter the for-ts, temple.s, walils and eanals either found des–

troyed or to be destroyed. In the interior of the building known