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Genre: Education
Date of upload: Jul 31, 2021 ^^
Rating : 4.907 (354/14,817 LTDR)
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Hey, Paul and community!
Right now I'm at Machu Picchu Pueblo (or Aguas Calientes). I'm on a trip with my wife to visit Cusco and Machu Picchu. When we arrived at the small town (but crowded with tourists) at the base of Machu Picchu we entered a restaurant where over the bar - ornated with inca figures all around - was a big tv playing the video from the episode "Cities in the Cloud". The tv is positioned in a way that the whole restaurant can see.
It was amazing and kinda shocking because we've seen this video a couple of times - one of them a few days before leaving our country home to come here.
I thought you would like to know that! Another sign of a great job done.
Kind regards!
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Iām Peruvian, and our country has just celebrated its bicentennial as an independent nation. But we are very much still suffering the ripples (cultural, economic, and otherwise) of this tale of destruction and genocide, which greatly shaped who we are as a nation. This was one of the saddest episodes in the history of humanity, expertly told. Keep up the excellent work!
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This series is the most visually stunning, thoroughly researched, approachable and comprehensible history series I have ever seen.. reminds me of the very best from the early days of TV, when the BBC and PBS were not corrupted and dumbed down - only better... Amazing series.... Cant thank you enough..
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As a student of history, I am somewhat surprised to find myself so overwhelmed, once again, by your series. However, the rise and fall of the Inca in particular has left me in deep sorrow. Your telling has a strange, otherworldly beauty to it, so ā in spite of the unfathomable cruelty of my species ā I feel something very akin to awe. Much appreciations.
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The sorrow of these New World episodes is so deep. I think it's how comparatively recent it all is, and the feeling of how differently things could have gone. There's this overwhelming sense that we were so close to a future so different to our own, if only a few dice had been rolled differently. Perhaps it was inevitable that things would happen this way. But, to know that in just a few hundred years that these men and thier actions would be viewed with disgust and outrage, but with no way of undoing them, is harrowing. If there's one thing we should take away from these stories it's that the destruction of knowledge and culture cannot be undone, and it is universally regretted and mourned in time.
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The more I learn about the history of the Americas (and I wasn't taught much of this in high school back when I went in the 80's), the sadder I become. Such amazing civilizations destroyed by the greed of Europeans, to the point where so little is actually known that they can literally disappear before our eyes. Documentaries like this are a sincere treasure. Thank you for what you've done.
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In the late 60's I climbed all through the Andes after aclimating myself in Cuzco for adventures in the higher mountains...at the time, major discoveries were still being resurrected from the jungle's grip. From jumping off the train at a certain mile marker at the San Pedro valley, to the last incline before entering Machu Picchu from the top (and being stopped by an official for taking photos because I hadn't paid to enter the site) I came in through the back door wearing sweaty Khakis and banged up boots. Books and museums convey only the dry facts and leave the humanity/inhumanity to the imagination. Thank you so much for your thorough lessons in cultural archaeology....Not only bones & buildings. I'm just a weary adventurer who has relived her youth through your outstanding efforts. THANK YOU SO MUCH Paul Cooper and crew!
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@pieromonteverde3169
1 year ago
As a native Peruvian, I found this podcast the best I've come across this period in history, better than what it is taught in college there. Congratulations and thank you!
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