It was thought that Small pox killed off most of the people within fifty years of its founding. Soon after the government failed and the City was forgotten. Though it is possible for a city's inhabitants to be wiped out to the last soul, by floods, vulcanoes, mudslides, wars or pandemic disease, it has happened more often that thriving civilisations are laid low by crop losses and small climate changes affecting plant growth or water supply from rivers. Survivors move away.
The Spanish conquistadors defeated the Incas so they were no longer at Machu Picchu.
Because of the Spanish Conquest
the Incas lived in Machu Picchu. The Incas were the largest civilization before the Spanish Conquest
The Incas were in Machu Picchu, but when the Spanish came they invaded Machu Pichhu and destroyed most of it.
Machu Picchu was built around 1450 by the Incas.
the Incas
yes, machu picchu was abandoned. it was mostly forgotten in 1532 when the spanish people arrived and invaded the incas. the incas who remembered the machu picchu never gave away its location
Machu Picchu is an ancient city of the Incas in Peru.
Machu Picchu
the Inca civilization built the machu picchu.
incas
Probably Machu Picchu
Yes, Cuzco was the capital. Machu Picchu was probably a religious center.
The lost city of the Incas is Machu Picchu, located in Peru. It was built in the 15th century and abandoned a century later during the Spanish conquest. Machu Picchu is now a popular archaeological site and tourist destination.