🇵🇪 Peru · Perú
Peru holds the oldest city in the Americas, the most photographed ruin on earth and the exact spot where an empire of ten million people changed hands in an afternoon. The stonework alone will tell you which century you are standing in.
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Peru is three countries stacked by altitude: a rainless desert coast, a high Andean spine of terraces and stone, and jungle behind it. Inca masonry, colonial arcades and adobe are the three building traditions, and they rarely mix.
Architecture
Mortarless polygonal stone with slightly inclined walls and trapezoidal doorways is Inca, 1440–1533 — and often forms the base of a colonial wall built on top. Whitewashed arcades with carved wooden balconies are Spanish colonial, 1540–1800. Adobe pyramids eroded into ridges are pre-Inca coastal cultures.
Landscape
Grey sand desert running straight into the Pacific with no vegetation is the coast — it effectively never rains there. Terraced green slopes above 3,000 m with eucalyptus are the sierra. Cloud forest on knife ridges means the eastern Andean flank around Machu Picchu.
Period tells
Llamas as pack animals appear in every century; wheels appear in none before the Spanish. Baroque church façades in soft volcanic sillar stone are Arequipa, post-1600. Earthquake-damaged colonial towers rebuilt shorter are common after 1650, 1746 and 1970.
A starting shortlist, oldest first. Every one of these makes a round that Peruvians can nail and everyone else has to work out.
Supe valley, north-central coastAncient world
Monumental platforms and sunken plazas built while Giza was going up, in a city with no defensive walls and no pottery.
Nazca pampa, IcaAncient world
Lines and animal figures scraped through dark desert varnish to the pale ground beneath, then left undisturbed by rain.
Urubamba valley, Cusco regionMedieval
A royal estate on a ridge between two peaks, drained by terraces and fitted together without mortar.
Cajamarca's plazaEarly modern
Fewer than 200 Spaniards took the Inca emperor in the middle of his own army, and the Andes changed hands.
Tinta and CuscoEarly modern
The largest colonial uprising in the Americas before the age of revolutions, and the harshest repression.
Peruvian history touches ancient & classical, medieval & renaissance and the exploration & revolution. Each of those eras has a timed round of its own — the same centuries, but questions drawn from every country in the library, so you find out whether you can date the rest of the period as confidently as you can date Peru.
Ancient & classical
Peruvian moments here: Caral's pyramids in use (2600 BC), The Nazca lines drawn (100 BC).
Medieval & Renaissance
Peruvian moments here: Machu Picchu built (1450), Atahualpa seized at Cajamarca (1532).
Exploration & revolution
Peruvian moment here: The Túpac Amaru II rebellion (1780).
Dates, order and places from the moments above. Answers are printed underneath — cover them with a hand if you want to test yourself, or read them out for a quiz round.
1.Caral's pyramids in use — what year?
Answer2600 BC
Monumental platforms and sunken plazas built while Giza was going up, in a city with no defensive walls and no pottery.
2.The Nazca lines drawn — what year?
Answer100 BC
Lines and animal figures scraped through dark desert varnish to the pale ground beneath, then left undisturbed by rain.
3.Machu Picchu built — what year?
Answer1450
A royal estate on a ridge between two peaks, drained by terraces and fitted together without mortar.
4.Atahualpa seized at Cajamarca — what year?
Answer1532
Fewer than 200 Spaniards took the Inca emperor in the middle of his own army, and the Andes changed hands.
5.The Túpac Amaru II rebellion — what year?
Answer1780
The largest colonial uprising in the Americas before the age of revolutions, and the harshest repression.
6.Which came first in Peru — Caral's pyramids in use or the Nazca lines drawn?
AnswerCaral's pyramids in use, in 2600 BC.
The Nazca lines drawn follows in 100 BC, 2500 years later.
7.Which came first in Peru — Machu Picchu built or Atahualpa seized at Cajamarca?
AnswerMachu Picchu built, in 1450.
Atahualpa seized at Cajamarca follows in 1532, 82 years later.
8.Where in Peru would you drop the pin for Caral's pyramids in use?
AnswerSupe valley, north-central coast
Monumental platforms and sunken plazas built while Giza was going up, in a city with no defensive walls and no pottery.
9.Where in Peru would you drop the pin for the Nazca lines drawn?
AnswerNazca pampa, Ica
Lines and animal figures scraped through dark desert varnish to the pale ground beneath, then left undisturbed by rain.
10.How far apart are the oldest and newest Peruvian moments in this collection?
Answer4,380 years
From Caral's pyramids in use in 2600 BC to the Túpac Amaru II rebellion in 1780.
You don't need a photograph or a map reference. Name a moment — "Caral's pyramids in use, Supe valley, north-central coast" — and the builder fills in the year, drops the pin, writes the factoid and paints a 360° scene you can stand inside. Publish it and it joins this collection for everyone.
Step 1
One line is enough — an event, a place, a year you half-remember. Or let the AI draft five moments around a theme.
Step 2
The year, the exact coordinates and a one-sentence factoid come back filled in. Everything stays editable.
Step 3
A 4K 360° panorama of that place in that year, ready to spin around inside the game.
🇵🇪 Put your own scene on /play/peru
Credits cover the AI: 1 to auto-fill a moment, 3 to draft five at once, 25 for each 4K panorama. Your map stays yours — you choose whether it's public, unlisted or private.
Moments Peruvians want to see in the game. Vote them up — the top of this list gets built next.
Each round drops you into a 360° scene from Peru's past. Look around for clues — architecture, clothing, technology, landscape — then place the scene on the world map and pick the year. You score up to 5,000 points a round: closer in distance and closer in time both pay. Five rounds make a game.
No. You can play Peruvian rounds straight away with no sign-up. Signing in saves your XP, keeps your character progressing through history, and puts you on the leaderboards.
The collection spans 2600 BC to 1780 — from caral's pyramids in use through to the túpac amaru ii rebellion. New moments are added as the community suggests them.
Yes, completely free. There is no paywall on rounds, the daily challenge, or the leaderboards.
Yes — that's how the collection grows. Suggest any moment Peruvians would recognise instantly, like caral's pyramids in use. Approved suggestions get built into playable 360° rounds and credited on the page.
There are currently 1 playable Peruvian rounds, shuffled so each game is different. The pool grows every time a community suggestion is built.
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