major plaza at its terminus, complete with architectural pond.

Note that the iconic Peruvian city of Machu Piccu (“the Lost City of the Incas”), with the nearby Cuzco administrative nexus, only comes into existence over a thousand years later, around 1450 CE.

3 BCE: HEROD THE GREAT DIES

3 BCE – 39 CE: HEROD ANTIPAS TETRARCH OF GALILEE

Whereas King Herod was relatively strong vis à vis Rome, his son Tetrarch Herod Antipas is weak—and successfully marginalized by Rome—and by the Roman procurator in Jerusalem. Herod’s capital was in Tiberias, on the Sea of Galilee in north east Judea…

Matters will now move apace.

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