Ben van Kerkwyk
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So it kind of fits that timeline, but it doesn't mean anything.
Like the Inca could have been down, the Tiwanaku could have been there forever.
I think the Inca, sure, that's the timeline for that civilization.
The Inca were very respectful.
This is the other thing about the architecture in that part of the world.
The layers are very respectful, other than the Spanish.
They smashed it all up.
But the Inca were very respectful and they tried to rebuild even.
Where they could rebuild megalithic structures, they would.
Here's a great example.
And I also think a great example of why...
why it's not possible that the Inca did all of this.
Because in such a short period of time, again, their civilization lasted barely a couple hundred years.
And there's so much of it, of this stonework.
And it's just complete night and day difference.
So in Cusco, there were like 13 high Incas, these kings of the Inca Empire, like the high Inca, the big dude.
And he had his court with his advisors.
They called them a panaca.
And it was a hereditary thing.