Building of Machu Picchu
An Inca mountain retreat the Spanish never found
High in the Andes an estate of precisely fitted stone was built for the Inca ruler Pachacuti. The Spanish never found it, and after Hiram Bingham publicised it in 1911 it became the symbol of Inca civilisation.
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Machu Picchu and Gutenberg's press are the same age: around 1450 the Incas were building their mountain estate while Mainz printed its first books.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1429 Joan of Arc relieves Orléans — 21 years earlier
- c. 1450 Gutenberg's printing press — same year
Middle East
- 1453 Fall of Constantinople — 3 years later
Asia
- 1446 King Sejong promulgates Hangul — 4 years earlier
Oceania
- c. 1445 Extinction of the moa — 5 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Johannes Gutenberg (aged 50)
- Mehmed II (aged 18)
- Sejong the Great (aged 53)
- Charles VII (aged 47)
- Murad II (aged 46)
- Pachacuti (aged 32)
- Louis XI (aged 27)
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa (aged 14)
- Ivan III (aged 10)
- Nezahualcoyotl (aged 48)