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Inca Terraces in Cusco, Peru
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What is a ruin? We’re running off of “You know it when you see it” at the moment. Ruins should be non-functioning structures of some age, or their function reduced to tourism and the like.
Generally speaking, specific items from a ruin should go to !historyartifacts@lemmy.world
Illustrations of ruins (or their reconstructions) should go to !historyillustrations@lemmy.world
Photos of ruins back when they were functioning should go to !HistoryPorn@lemmy.world
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One of the things that fascinates me about pre-contact Americas are the farming techniques. Mesoamerica had chinampas (in the lakes) and South America (the mountainous area at least) had terraces.