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Centuries-old bird poop helped power a pre-Inca kingdom
In A Nutshell Between 1250 and 1400 CE, Peru’s Chincha Kingdom mastered seabird guano fertilization, enabling agriculture in ...
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Seabird poop may have fueled this pre-Inca kingdom's rise to power in South America
Before the Inca civilization rose to power in what’s now Peru, the Chincha Kingdom reigned as a prosperous society on the country’s southern coast. Now, scientists have discovered that seabird ...
Guano dramatically boosted the production of maize, and the surplus helped fuel the Chincha Kingdom’s economy.
In 1532, in the city of Cajamarca, Peru, Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro and a group of Europeans took the Inca ruler ...
Before this fateful attack, Pizarro’s brother, Pedro Pizarro, made a curious observation: other than the Inca himself, the Lord of Chincha was the only person at Cajamarca carried on a litter, a ...
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