The similarity between Machu Picchu and Chichen Itza are both of this city is lost city that abandoned by the people. Machu Picchu it was abandoned city just over 100 years later, in 1572. It is possible that most of it is population died from smallpox introduced by travelers before the Spanish conquistadors arrived in the area. There evidence suggests that Chichen Itza was abandoned by the Mayans in the tenth century. The abandonment has not yet fully explained because the Mayan returned to and settled the cities around 1000 AD. There some evidence that both of this city was colonized by the Spanish. The third similar of this two city are the City contain stone building in various state of preservation. In Chichen Itza, the site contain five stone building are connected by dense network of formerly, called sacbeob. There almost 100 sacbeob criss-crossing the site, and extending in all direction from the city. Machu Picchu, the Incas were masters of this technique, called ashlar, in which block of stone are cut to fit together tightly without mortar. Both this city has temple, in Chichen Itza the temple still exist is the Temple of the Sun and Temple of the Sun in Machu Picchu. They have a sacred religious site. This theory stands mainly because of where Machu Picchu located. Reinhard calls it ‘sacred geography’ because the site of building on and around the mountain that holding high religious important in the Inca culture. There are two large, natural sink holes, called cenotes, this could have provided plentiful water year at Chichen Itza. There two cenotes, the “Cenote Sagrado” known as the Sacred Well or Well sacrifice. Machu Picchu is the historic Sanctuary while Chichen-Itza is the Pre-Hispanic City. The sanctuary of Machu Picchu was located in the country of Peru and Chichen Itza was in the country of Mexico. In the sanctuary of Machu Picchu the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for symbolic thought and social learning were mixed and in the city of Chichen Itza were cultural. The ruins of Machu Picchu are divided into two main sections known as the Urban and Agricultural Sectors, divided by a wall. The Agricultural Sector is further subdivided into upper and lower sectors, while the Urban Sector is split into East and West sectors, separated by wide plazas. The buildings of Chichen Itza are grouped in a series architectonic set, and each set was at one time separated from other by a series of low walls. The site exhibits of the city of Chichen Itza was a multitude of architectural styles, from what is called “In the Mexican Origin” and reminiscent of styles seen in central Mexico to the Puuc style found among the Puuc Maya of the northern lowlands. The presence of central Mexican styles was once thought to have been representative of direct migration or even conquest from central Mexico, but most contemporary interpretations view the presence of these non-Maya styles more as the result of cultural diffusion. Machu Picchu was built in the classical Inca style, with polished dry-stoned walls. Its three primary buildings are the Intihuatana, the Temple of the Sun, and the Room of the Three Windows. These are located in what is known by archaeologists as the Sacred District of Machu Picchu. In September 2007, Peru and Yale University almost reached an agreement regarding the return of artifacts which Yale has held since Hiram Bingham removed them from Machu Picchu in the early 20th century. In November 2010, a Yale University representative agreed to return the artifacts to a Peruvian university. I like the city of the Pre Hispanic, Chichen Itza because it has more site of description than the historic sanctuary of Machu Picchu, such as the Great North Platform, the Ossario Group, the Casa Colorada Group, Central Group and the Old Chichen. And I preferred the Pre-Hispanic city of Chichen Itza as my destination for vacation because the city of Chichen Itza was located on the flat surface than the historic sanctuary of the Machu Picchu was on the mountain.
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