What Are The Similarities Between Mesa Verde And The Inca

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Mesa verde and the Incas had many cliff dwellings. Between their cliff dwellings were some similarities that they shared . Even though they had similarities, they also had something that they did not share with each other. Some looked different and were built different their cliff dwelling were not exactly alike. Mesa Verde cliff dwellings had their own unique touch. Mesa Verde cliff dwellings were high and you would need to climb over a 32 ft ladder which was said in “Paragraph 9 Source 1”. There were some artifacts found in the cliff dwellings that gave more information of the trades the Anasazis had. As the pueblo families grew they created more rooms as they went on. It was determined that 100 people lived in the largest cliff dwelling of Mesa Verde called the cliff palace. The cliff palace contained 150 rooms and 23 kivas and parts of the structure were four stories high. Like our home today they had their living areas like storage rooms and cooking rooms. The information above was cited by the article “A Historic Rediscovery”. …show more content…

The Incas cliff dwellings were large and their vast ream contained over 123 million people. Their buildings were 3 miles or more above sea level this made the oxygen level less which was said in “Source 3 Paragraph 1”. Yet with that difficulty the Incas built a great civilization and grew into something huge, the Inca empire stretched more than 2,500 miles from what is now northern Ecuador to central Chile which was stated in “Source 3 Paragraph 2”. There was Machu picchu which had earned the nickname of the lost city city since untill Hiram Bingham discovered it in 1911 while on a expedition. We still don’t know why Sapa Inca( Inca leader at the time) ordered it to be built but it turned out to be spectacular. The information above was cited from the article “The Four Quarters of the