Peruvian Parable (or, supping with stepmom’s Spanish class)

So, the Incans built the first walls of most structures throughout their gallant empire, and fine, worthy craftsmen and women they were. The Spaniards, in their infinite colonial wisdom, disapproved of their meager height and built them up, up, up—which we know today because the slightest tremor brings only storeys two and upward crumbling down.