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At Trelleborg, almost 900,000 cubic feet of earth, stone and clay make up nearly a third
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of a mile of 56 foot thick earth ramparts.
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Just outside the walls lies a burial site with over 100 skeletons, some in mass graves.
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Clues suggest that 16 Viking longhouses sit behind heavily defended walls.
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So what exactly is Trelleborg and why was it built?
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Trelleborg doesn't appear in any written records.
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Archaeologists didn't even realize it was a Viking structure until the 1930.
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It's really a fantastic and magnificent monument.
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Triloba.
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And Christine Larsson is Trelleborgs director.
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Until experts started digging here, it was thought most Vikings only lived in small
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farms and villages.
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Tyler is a very unique site in many senses.
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It's nothing like the villages around Trelleborg.
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Looks like a simple structure with ramparts made of earth and piled stones.
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But archaeologists like Ann Christine can tell from detailed surveys that Trelleborg is
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a masterpiece of advanced engineering.
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A geometrically perfect circle some 450ft across, aligned to the compass.
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It's quite clever, actually.
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Tournament has four gates and they are pointed to the compass, meaning that one is
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pointed to north, one to the south, one east, one west.
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And Christine thinks Trelleborg showcases an astonishing new level of sophistication in
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Viking architecture.
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Thousand years ago, when the Vikings built this fortress, they put out the ramparts.
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Very accurate, completely circular.
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And it's amazing that today we actually need this to do what the Vikings did without any
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equipment.
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A ring is the perfect shape for a fortress, with a clear line of sight from every point
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on the wall. But Ann Christine suspects that Trelleborgs precise geometry goes far beyond
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what's needed for defense.
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This was designed to display prestige and power.
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So what exactly went on here?
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A clue might be hidden on the other side of these ramparts.
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Outside the Vikings structure.
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Archaeologists have uncovered a grisly surprise.
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157 skeletons in a major Viking cemetery.
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Buried with one of the bodies are the remains of a massive battle ax adorned with
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intricate silver inlay.
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Its blade over a foot long.
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In its day, this would have been a valuable and lethally effective weapon.
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But were all of the people buried here Warriors?
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And can they reveal why Trelleborg was built?
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Today, the hundreds of bone fragments discovered at Trelleborg are locked away
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securely underground.
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Here at the University of Copenhagen, forensic anthropologist Niels Lynnerup is
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trying to solve the mystery of what these warriors were doing here.
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Having the bones really adds an extra dimension to what we know about Trelleborg.
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The sheer number of bone fragments makes it difficult to work out how many individuals
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were buried at Trelleborg.
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In this box here, for instance, is clear that we have fragments of several of the limb
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bones, the long bones, and of the skull.
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Well, we really have only the mandible, see, with a couple of teeth in.
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As he expects, most of the bones do appear to belong to young warriors.
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There's very little abrasion on the third molar, which erupted when you're 18 at
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Trelleborg. We find more young males than we would do in, let's say, more ordinary village
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cemetery.
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But what really shocks Nils are some of the other skeletons buried with these fighters?
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Surprisingly, even though we have a lot of young males.
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This is an old individual which can be seen again from the mandible.
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This is probably an old female, maybe 4050 years of age.
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So why was a woman considered elderly for the time, living alongside a force of Viking
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soldiers? Nils believes she was part of an army of workers who supported the young
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warriors. Inside Trelleborg.
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Archaeologists found parts of a loom, revealing that skilled female weavers made
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cloth for tunics and cloaks.
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The people here also smelted raw materials into pure metals.
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Anvils found within Trelleborg reveal blacksmiths repaired weapons and forged new
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ones. This was a hugely sophisticated fortress, one of the most impressive in
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northern Europe, built with incredible precision on an extraordinary scale.
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The Vikings traditional way of life was raiding and fighting before returning home to
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tend to their farms.
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But these Vikings appear to be a garrison stationed inside a permanent military base.
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Probably be compared a bit to Roman camps in England.
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So again, I think it reflects sort of a military encampment where an army has been
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stationed for some time.
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1500 years ago, the Roman Empire was falling apart.
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Fierce tribes invaded, led by warriors like Attila the Hun.
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Why was Rome unable to stop them?
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What had happened to this superpower of the ancient world?
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The German city of Trier that was once an important Roman settlement could hold the
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answers. Dr.
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Markus Reuter is head of Trier's team of archaeologists, scientists and historians.
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He wants to find out what was making Roman life here crumble.
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We do not know exactly how tria collapsed.
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It is a great mystery what happened to the city.
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There are more questions than answers.
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Markus's team investigates a 10,000 square foot area north of the city, a Roman burial
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ground. Could it hold a clue to the fate of Trier's last Roman citizens?
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Hidden beneath the modern city.
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The dense clay soil is perfect for preserving bones.
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Digging down more than ten feet below the surface.
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Reveals layer after layer of human remains.
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Each Roman household buried their dead in a tightly arranged plot, often alongside a
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selection of coins, pottery and jewellery.
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The dead are crammed into a 3D jigsaw puzzle.
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So how many people were living in Trier when the barbarians attacked?
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And when did they all die?
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It's fantastic for me and for my colleagues to work here.
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Every day we find new objects, graves and something more.
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Marcus joins the team on their 12th excavation north of the city wall.
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Each dig reveals hundreds of bodies.
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The colleagues find about 150 graves in this part, but it's only a small piece of a much
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larger cemetery with thousands of graves.
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The overall size of the cemetery is staggering.
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Marcus discovers that Trier, in its Roman heyday, was a crowded metropolis.
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But in the five hundreds, after the age of Attila, it was a shadow of its former self.
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In Roman times, there were about 80,000 inhabitants in Trier.
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But in medieval times there were only about 5000 inhabitants.
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So was a series of bloody attacks responsible for this dramatic decline.
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Or was something else behind the fall in the city's fortunes?
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Trier thrived for over 400 years, sitting near the frontier of the Roman Empire.
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It bordered lands occupied by fierce barbarian tribes.
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Ancient historians say that Roman Trier suffered assaults from these barbarians time
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and time again.
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One of the most devastating attacks in this area was in 451 AD, when Attila's Huns
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rampaged across Europe.
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But is the decrease in population really related to repeated invasions by hostile
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tribes? To find out.
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Marcus needs to work out exactly when the population fell.
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And if it corresponds with the time of the invasion.
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The burial plots are incredibly dense.
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This makes it difficult to know which bones belong to which century.
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The key to dating these remains is not the bodies themselves, but all the items buried
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with them. The team uses the grave goods to date each burial.
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This helps them build up an image of how many people died in each century.
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It's a great problem to deal with the enormous finds.
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We have much more excavations inside and outside the city, and there are hundreds,
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thousands of objects of pottery, of coins, of stones and.
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Much more.
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The dig team sends all their finds here.
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Trier's cavernous storage depots.
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Every single item, human remains or grave goods is categorized and boxed up, ready for
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further analysis.
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All these boxes come from one excavation.
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Last year it was a small area, but we found over 350 Roman graves.
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Sifting through the fines is a mammoth task.
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But Marcus makes an incredible discovery.
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Trier's population seemed to simply disappear.
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About 100 years before Attila was even born.
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Most of them are dating in the first and the second century AD, some of them are dating in
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the third century AD.
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So where are the fourth and fifth century people?
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We don't know.
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It's a great mystery and we're still looking for these people.
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Archaeologists have now pieced together some of the biggest mysteries of the Spanish
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conquest of Peru, revealing how fewer than 200 conquistadors brought down an empire and
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made it their own.
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The Spanish thought that their civilization was better than that of the Incas, and so
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they wanted to impose it right on top of the Inca civilization.
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But there's one final missing piece of the puzzle.
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What happened to the Incas themselves?
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Why did they seem to disappear?
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Now a sensational discovery high in the Andes could reveal the answers.
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In 1985, on the fringes of the Inca Empire in the Aconcagua mountains, hikers discovered
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the remains of a mummified boy.
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They found him in a semicircular stone structure.
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Wrapped in Inca textiles and surrounded by offerings to the gods.
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Forensics suggest the boy was the victim of an Inca ritual sacrifice.
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Taken up the mountain, drugged and killed with a blow to the head.
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The boy's body was so well preserved that over 500 years later, his DNA is still
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intact. The Aconcagua boy was an Inca born near Cusco.
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Geneticist Antonio Salas thinks his mummified body could hold the secrets of what
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happened to all the Incas after the conquest.
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Antonio tests a DNA sample taken from the boy's corpse.
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We are analyzing.
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The DNA from the mummy, and we are comparing the profile of this mummy with the profile of
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the populations living in South America.
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Antonio's team expects to find people in South America still carrying traces of the
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Incas genetic profile.
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But he makes a shocking discovery.
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Almost nobody at all carries it.
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It's as if the Incas simply vanished.
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We see a continuous population growth till the arrival of Europeans.
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And from this point there was a population decline.
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Antonio's investigations suggests the Spanish didn't just take over the Inca's empire, but
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also wiped out thousands of Inca families.
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Did the invaders commit genocide?
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The population decline of the Incas could be due to military conflicts, but also because
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they married with Europeans.
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So what you observe is that the DNA was diluted.
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But could something else have played an even bigger role in the decline of the Incas?
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When they stepped off their boats, the Spanish brought with them an invisible killer
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a completely new set of diseases, including the lethal smallpox.
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Their immunity system were not prepared for to fight against these germs.
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The arrival of the Europeans was very tragic.
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For Incas.
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For the indigenous people.
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Disease was a time bomb.
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We know that even today in the Amazon region, the populations suffer from the impact of
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diseases when they enter in contact with people coming from other regions.
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With no natural resistance.
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European illnesses swept through the empire's population like wildfire, killing
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millions. War, intermarriage and deadly germs destroyed the last great pre-Hispanic
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civilization of the Andes, the Incas.
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When the Spanish conquered Peru, the Inca Empire was completely dismembered.
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Essentially, what was going on was a massive and thorough looting operation, which was
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literally obliterating virtually everything they'd done.
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Today, the Incas huge buildings have nearly all vanished.
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But visitors still marvel at the fragments that are left.
