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Vocabulary
Hiram Bingham
What Happened Next
Machu Picchu
Story Skills
100
Magnificent!
What is "glorious"?
100
It is the reason that Hiram chose to make an expedition to Peru in 1911.
What is to locate the lost city of Vilcapampa?
100
Accompanied by a military escort, Sgt. Carrasco, Bingham traveled by mule train to start his journey for this destination..
What is the sacred valley of the Urubamba River?
100
The lost city of Machu Picchu appeared this way high in the mountains.
What is terraced - having flat areas with steep sides?
100
It is the way that both Hiram Bingham and the stranger in the boy's dream were alike.
What is because both carried a black box?
200
Dared to go into...
What is "ventured"?
200
It is what Hiram Bingham gazed upon in the city of Cusco?
What is an old Incan stone wall?
200
Sergeant Carrasco and his guide, Arteaga crossed the flimsy bridge with bare feet, but Bingham crossed it this way.
What is by crawling on his hands and knees?
200
While climbing to Machu Picchu, Arteaga feared this.
What is fer de lance (an enormous snake)?
200
From the story, we can conclude this about the Incas.
What is that they once ruled in South America?
300
Secluded, or set away from everything else...
What is "remote"?
300
It is the one main problem Bingham faced in his search.
What is that no one he asked knew where the lost city's ruins were?
300
After Bingham and Arteaga met the Quechua boy, the boy's family did this.
What is brought gourds of water and sweet potatoes to them?
300
It is the first thing, Bingham did when he came upon the city of Machu Picchu.
What is laid his hands upon the fine granite stone of the ruins?
300
It is the one generalization we can make about most Incan cities.
What is that they were located high in the mountains of Peru?
400
Rough or uneven...
What is "rugged"?
400
On Bingham's way to Machu , this man agreed to try and be his guide.
Who was Arteaga?
400
After the boy led Bingham and his party past a grand staircase and vegetable garden high in the mountains, they saw this.
What was an enormous stone temple?
400
The author's search for the ruins differed from Hiram Bingham's search because...
What is Bingham had not idea where the ruins were, but the author knew how to get there because of Bingham's journey and the journal he had made?
400
The last thing stated that Bingham did in the story was..
What is that he took a picture of the Quechua boy who had helped him?
500
Dense types of shrubs normally found in the wild.
What are "thickets"?
500
By profession,Bingham was a scientist from this university.
What is Yale University?
500
After following the boy to another temple that had three windows, Bingham could see the outline of this in the distance.
What were the stone streets and cottages of a city?
500
Machu Picchu is located at this height in the Andes Mountains.
What is 2,500 feet?
500
All three men who climbed in search of the lost city are alike in this way.
What is that all persisted in climbing but each had different things on his mind?