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    concerning craft specialization and craft industrialization in civilization is usually overlooked. Since foregoing investigations we can determine the functions of craft production and trade throughout the expansion of political control in the pre-hispanic Andes and Shang dynasty. We can comprehend the different ways in which both craft production and trade further contributed to developing power and to the maintenance of that power in this area of the globe earlier than the imperial hegemony of both empires

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    domésticas actuales. La quinoa que hoy conocemos (Chenopodium quinoa) es un producto de la manipulación y selección artificial que realizó la gente de Los Andes durante mucho tiempo. A pesar de no saber exactamente cuando y donde fue domesticada‚ podemos conocer el proceso y sus resultados. Además de la C. quinoa‚ domesticada en Los Andes (la más conocida)‚ hay otras especies de Chenopodium que fueron

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    Some things that were left at Inca ac are The Sacred Valley of the Incas‚ or Urubamba Valley‚ is located in the Andes Mountains near Cusco‚ Peru. If people went to the Inca Pisac the would see the life‚ the way they built their homes‚ their sanctuaries‚ roads and temples. They would see the Sun Temple and the Moon Temple and the Trail to Inca to Machu Picchu and

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    Aztecs: Incas

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    Mexico east to the Gulf of Mexico and south to Guatemala. The Aztec built great cities and developed a complex social‚ political‚ and religious structure. Spaniards found another Indian civilization called Incas Empire; it was a vast kingdom in the Andes Mountains of South America‚ but at the time of the Spaniards conquest the empire was in a huge crisis caused by the death of their leader. Before the crisis‚ the Inca government system was among the most complex political organizations of many Native

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    In the Doris Lessing’s passage‚ “You Are Damned‚ We Are Saved‚” she tells us that she was raised in a country where the white minority dominated the black majority. According to Lessing‚ if anyone disagrees with the white‚ he or she would be considered as a demon and would suffer from ostracism. Also‚ Lessing describes a long miner’s strike in Britain‚ during which a miner chose to return to work because he felt that the strike leader had led the strike badly. And because of this‚ the miner was beaten

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    The Birth of Mesoamerican and Andean Artistry By Erica Seidman The Olmec and Chavin peoples were important to the development of Mesoamerican and Andean civilizations because they provided the foundations of cultural influence in which their predecessors derived from. In particular‚ the two artistic styles that became prevalent throughout pre-Columbian civilizations can be credited to the time when the Olmec and Chavin peoples lived whom marked the beginning of artistic production in Mesoamerican

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    Himalayas

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    Himalayan range is home to some of the planet’s highest peaks‚ including the highest‚ Mount Everest. The Himalayas include over a hundred mountains exceeding 7‚200 metres (23‚600 ft) in height. By contrast‚ the highest peak outside Asia—Aconcagua‚ in the Andes— is 6‚961 metres (22‚838 ft) tall.[2] The Himalayas have profoundly shaped the cultures of South Asia. Many Himalayan peaks are sacred in both Hinduism and Buddhism. Besides the Greater Himalaya of these high peaks there are parallel lower ranges

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    Argentina - Short Essay

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    America. The four main regions of Argentina are the fertile plains of the Pampas in the central part of the country‚ the plateau of Patagonia in the southern part down to Tierra del Fuego‚ the subtropical northern area of the Gran Chaco‚ and the rugged Andes Mountain range along the western border with Chile. The fertile Pampas have great agriculture and cattle grazing‚ the region of Patagonia is cool‚ with wooded and fertile areas‚ and the Gran Chaco region‚ is swampy and partly wooded. Some of the major

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    Maya, Aztec, Incas

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    tremendous system of roads that stretched 3‚700 miles across the entire empire. They also built a system of channels to irrigate their crops to sustain their population. The Incas used a process of terracing to make the steep mountain sides of the Andes into farmable land. This process was a revolutionary farming movement to support their empire. The Aztec were very advanced also. They built their capital‚ Tenochtitlan‚ on an island in Lake Texcoco. They built out the island and increased the

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    The Mid-Atlantic Ridge‚ East Pacific Rise‚ East Africa Rift Valleys‚ Red Sea‚ Gulf of California are examples of what kind of plate boundaries. -divergent Andes Mountains‚ Cascade Mountains‚ Aleutian Islands‚ Mariana Islands‚ Himalaya Mountains‚ and the Alps are examples of what kind of plate boundaries -convergent Is it a faster or slower spreading mid-ocean ridge that produces broader and less rugged segments? -faster When you have Oceanic-Contintental convergance‚ which one

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