Inca: Secrets of the Ancestors

This documentary talks about the Incas, which was a large empire in
South American which didn’t last too long, but still had a large impact in it’s time.
It talks at first of how it lives and thrived off its ancestors and their culture who
we know extraordinarily little of. At first it gives a very brief overview of what they
had like excellent architecture, and engineering for their time, and describes the
land a rough and extremely hard to live in. They mention the long roads they built
for travel and transporting goods and people from long distances across rugged
terrain and mountains. The film briefly mentions about their beliefs at the
beginning about worshiping many gods with Inti, the sun god to be their most
famous one. It later talks about Machu Pichu which is one of their most famous
sites and most mysterious considering the purpose of it isn’t really known but
gives a great view. Another thing they mention is that the people also adapted
not just with their building, but also physically like having larger lungs and smaller
legs for living in high altitudes and Rocky Mountains since a lot of their land was
on the Andes. One thing they mention which a lot of people don’t realize is that
the Incan Empire were a group of cultures, tribes, and people that worked
together or were conquered and merely called themselves Inca just like how
America is a mixing pot country filled with thousands of different people. On the
east of the Andes were the lush and wet tropical Amazon Rainforest but the west
had deserts, Rocky Mountains that stretched across the cost of South America,
and frequent earthquakes and volcanic activity these people lived in one of the
most difficult environments. Something else that I find cool about the Incas that is
mentioned is that they performed surgeries on people’s skull and had a 60%
success rate and they did it for treating injuries and other reasons they don’t
know but enough people lived and were fine. One famous mystery mentioned
were the Nazca lines from the Nazca people who we know nothing about, just
what they had left behind which were large lines. A lot of what they talk about
later is when the Spaniards and the conquistadors traveling to Peru destroying
almost everything they find, stealing as much gold as they can carry, spreading
disease, and just conquering the rest. But overall, it tells a great Incan story and as
a Peruvian, I give this a thumbs up.