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  2. Andén - Wikipedia

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    Behind the retaining wall, the bottom one metre (3.3 ft) was filled with large stones, overlaid by a layer about 1 metre (3.3 ft) thick of sand or gravel. Capping the top of the terrace was a layer of topsoil about 1 metre (3.3 ft) thick. The result was a terrace providing "well-drained rich soil and a level surface for growing crops."

  3. Inca agriculture - Wikipedia

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    Agricultural Andenes or terraces in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, close to Pisac, Peru.. Inca agriculture was the culmination of thousands of years of farming and herding in the high-elevation Andes mountains of South America, the coastal deserts, and the rainforests of the Amazon basin.

  4. Inca technology - Wikipedia

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    These terraces allowed the Inca to utilize the land for farming that they never could in the past. [6] Everything about how the terrace functions, looks, its geometric alignment, etc. all depend on the slope of the land. [6] The different layering of materials is part of what makes the terraces so successful.

  5. Historical Thesaurus of English - Wikipedia

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    The Historical Thesaurus of English (HTE) is a complete database of all the words in the Oxford English Dictionary and other dictionaries (including Old English), arranged by semantic field and date. In this way, the HTE arranges the whole vocabulary of English, from the earliest written records in Old English to the present, alongside dates of ...

  6. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  7. Inca complex at Písac - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford Handbook of the Incas. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190219352. Niles, Susan A. (1977). The Shape of Inca History. Narrative and Architecture in an Andean Empire. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. ISBN 9780877456735. Squier, Ephraim George (1877). Peru-Incidents of Travel and Exploration in the Land of the Incas. New ...

  8. Qullqa - Wikipedia

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    Qullqa is also the Quechua language name for the constellation Pleiades. The Inca deity Qullqa, personified in the Pleiades, was the patron of warehousing and preserving seeds for the next season. Of all the stellar pantheon worshiped by Incas, Qullqa was the "mother", the senior over all heavenly patrons of earthly things. [24]

  9. Terrace - Wikipedia

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    Terrace, a street suffix; Terrace, the portion of a lot between the public sidewalk and the street; Terrace (earthworks), a leveled surface built into the landscape for agriculture or salt production; Terrace (building), a raised flat platform; Terrace garden, an element where a raised flat paved or gravelled section overlooks a prospect