Aztec Jungle Agriculture The heart and drive of the 15th century Central American Indians produced a burning fire to unite and find the naturally richest place to live. The evident greatness with which they lived their lives was tragically destroyed by the invading Spanish Conquistadores. Pablo Neruda, a 20th century poet, visited the ruins of Macchu Picchu high in the Andes of Peru. In his poem, The Heights of Macchu Picchu, III, Neruda muses about the fall of the Indian tribes to the Spaniards. The human soul was threshed out like maize in the endless granary of defeated actions, of mean things that happened, to the very edge of endurance, and beyond, and not only death, but ma