Examples of Machu Picchu in the following topics:
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- Machu Picchu was built in the classical Inca style, with polished, dry-stone walls.
- As part of their transportation system, the Incas built a road to Machu Picchu.
- Today, tens of thousands of tourists walk the Inca Trail to visit Machu Picchu each year .
- Some researchers believe Machu Picchu to be a sacred religious site, based on its location.
- Describe the architectural techniques used in the construction of Machu Picchu.
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- Machu Picchu was built around 1450, at the height of the Inca Empire.
- The construction of Machu Picchu appears to date from the period of the two great Inca emperors, Pachacutec Inca Yupanqui (1438–1471) and Tupac Inca Yupanqui (1472–1493), and was probably built as a temple for the emperor Pachacutec.
- Machu Picchu was abandoned just over 100 years later, in 1572, as a belated result of the Spanish Conquest, possibly related to smallpox.
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- The famous royal estate of Machu Picchu Pikchu) is a surviving example of Inca architecture; other significant sites include Saksaywaman and Ollantaytambo.
- Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel situated on a mountain ridge 7,970 feet above sea level.
- Most archaeologists believe that Machu Picchu was built as an estate for the Inca emperor Pachacuti (1438–1472).
- Machu Picchu was built in the classical Inca style, with polished dry-stone walls.
- Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel situated on a mountain ridge 7,970 feet above sea level.
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- The roads also had a ritual purpose because they allowed the highest leaders of the Inca Empire to
ascend into the Andes to perform religious rituals in sacred spaces,
such as Machu Picchu.