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The Incas were an indigenous people living in the northwest of South America, in the Andes. The heyday of the Inca civilization lasted roughly from 1438 to 1532, so only a century. The entire kingdom was destroyed by the Spaniards under Francisco Pizarro.w., All the gold was looted. For the Incas gold meant nothing but for the Spaniards was is true wealth. Many contemporary buildings in the Peruvian town Qosqo (Cuzco) are built on the remains of ancient Inca buildings, because Cuzco was the capital of the empire. The Incas were great architects. They built bridges over rivers, great forts, and beautiful cities with temples. They knew how to cultivate the mountains by building terraces on these mountains. Machu Picchu is a good example of an architectural world wonder. The walls of the buildings consisted of stones, which were so placed into each other, that there was no need of cement. To ensure that the moon and the sun would not stop, stones were placed on the mountain t...

The Celts are the peoples and tribes who spoke the Celtic language over a millennium before the beginning of our era and the following centuries. Their ancestors spread from the core area in Central Europe both to the west and east. Around the beginning of our era, Celtic tribes inhabited the British Isles, Gaul, the Iberian Peninsula and parts of Central Europe and the Balkans. Celtic languages ​​belong to the Indo-European language family. Due to the large area and the very long time that the Celts lived they have been able to build a very rich past. Misunderstandings It is sometimes assumed that the Celts are the founders of tumuli , large Obelisks , megaliths , dolmens , menhirs and Mounds but this is not true. These monuments date back to ancient times, some are 4000 years old. The Celtic civilization begun only 400 years before Christ. The reason why these monuments are linked to the Celts is by the conquests of the Roman empire. Their opinion was that these...