Cuzco

=Cuzco= by mr. Bauchner Cuzco was the capital city of the Inca Empire. Only members of the nobility were allowed to live in this city. The city was divided into four quarters, each representing a section of the empire. When visitors came to Cuzco, they stayed in the section of the city that represented their home area in the Empire. Colonists came to Cuzco to be trained in running their part of the empire. Messengers ran to Cuzco along Inca roads carrying quipu to keep track of people, animals, and crops across the huge empire. Fransisco Pizarro and the Spanish conquistadores took over Cuzco in 1533, only a year after the end of the Incan Civil War. Cuzco today is a large city in southern Peru, with almost half a million people living two miles above sea level in the Andes Mountains.

Sources: Cusco – Cuzco: http://www.cusco-peru.org/cusco-information-cusco-information1.shtml, March 24th, 2007. Kids Discover: Incas: Stella Sands, editor, 2005. Photo: http://www.peru-explorer.com/PERU-EXPLORER.2002/cusco/city/cusco_panoramica.jpg Drawing: [|http://www.capurromrc.it/mappe/!40cuzco.jpg] Map: http://www.exn.ca/news/images/1998/09/24/19980924-inca_empiremap.gif