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Highways to Empire: The Inca Road System

Publication: Civil Engineering Magazine Archive
Volume 86, Issue 1

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The road network built by the Incas included new and preexisting roads, and although it bound their empire together, it also hastened that empire's demise.

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Civil Engineering Magazine Archive
Volume 86Issue 1January 2016
Pages: 40 - 43

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Published in print: Jan 2016
Published online: Jan 12, 2017

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Jeff Brown
Contributing Editor; ASCE World Headquarters, 1801 Alexander Bell Drive, Reston, VA, ASCE

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