
Reinhard: Machu Picchu was probably abandoned or began to be abandoned already before the Spanish came, and that’s because around 1525 there was a civil war. After the Spanish arrived seven years later, in 1532, the Inca deliberately burned the forest around Machu Picchu. They burned it because the foliage re-grows and completely covers it and made it virtually impassable.
萊因哈德:在西班牙人來之前,馬丘比丘就可能已經被遺棄或即將被放棄,這是因為1525年左右有一個內戰。西班牙人到達后七年后的1532年,印加人故意燒了馬丘比丘周圍的森林。他們焚燒樹葉,因為它重新增長和完全覆蓋它,使它幾乎不可逾越。