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1. A handsome inasonr\' structure r)\-erlo(ikint.' a plaza or court\-ard. This building, resting 

 upion an artificial terrace, is one of main' at the Maya Classic peri<jd site rif Copan in 

 western Honduras. (Courtesy Carneeie Institution of Washington.) 



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A \icvv of the great adobe wall bordering a side of one of the huge palace and living 

 enclosures at the Peruvian north-coast site of Chanchan. The ancient urban metropolis 

 of Chanchan consists of several such enclosures. Chanchan was in its heyday in the 

 15th century, as the capital of the Chimu kingdom. It was taken over and destroyed 

 by the Inca armies about A.D. 1470. (Courtesy Clifford Evans, Jr.) 



