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You were telling me the Spanish looked at this and said uncivilized. The Inca who built the Moray Terraces as an agricultural laboratory because each separate circle created a different microclimate so they could figure out exactly what to grow at what elevation. The Inca who cultivated 44 types of corn and 4,000 types of potatoes. The Inca who built this stuff 600 years ago and it is still standing because it's all earthquake proof. The Inca who created salt flats that still to this day aren't privatized. They're all sharing it from the same hot spring in the mountain and everyone gets a share. Not to mention Coricancha, Machu Picchu, the fact that all of their cities were made intentionally in the shapes of animals that were important to them. This reminds me of exactly what happened in Tenochtitlan when Cortes laid eyes on that city for the first time. He wrote in his diary that the temples were grander than anything he would have seen in Sevilla. Yeah, you're telling me the Spanish saw this and they said, inferior.