HOW DOES THIS MAKE YOU FEEL You are a Mayan farmer, growing corn in the fields outside a city. Often you enter the city to join in religious ceremonies. You watch the king and his priests standing at the top of a tall pyramid. They wear capes of brightly colored feathers and gold ornaments that glitter in the sun. Far below them, thousands of worshippers crowd in to the plaza with you to honor the gods. How did the mountains cause problems for the Inca civilization?