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Incan Empire

Published on Nov 21, 2015

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INCAN EMPIRE CONSTRUCTION

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All external walls of the Incan Empire were constructed of chiseled stone blocks that fit together. They fit the blocks without the use of iron tools or wheels. How?

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Two Main Techniques:

Used ramps leading to the tops of temples

Carved the rock with a collar until the unwanted portion fell off

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Vincent Lee's method: a track of ladder-like sections for the roadbed (sled to place stone on) and leavers to move forward

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The stones were fit together and shaped by hammer stones. Large stones were used to rough the blocks and smaller stones were used to finish and smooth the blocks.

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Bibliography

http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/arch499/nonwest/inca/construction_theories.h...

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