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    The Essence of Being Women and Native. When human beings are uprooted from their ancestral lineage‚ their work‚ social relationships‚ marriage‚ parenting‚ and religion change. The breakage occurs not only at social and economic level‚ but internal as well‚ because of an immense effort made to overcome a strong internal crisis. In general native women used to enjoy great influence and respect from their community. The transformations native woman from Huron and Ojibwa experienced impacted them

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    By doing so‚ the Incans had extended their empire along to approximately the length of Western South America. The Inca Empire grew huge in amazingly short time‚ less than100 years‚ from a small area in south central Peru to a vast region encompassing all of modern day Bolivia‚ Peru‚ Ecuador and parts of what is now Colombia‚ Argentina and Chile (Ziegler‚ 2003). The Inca Empire had become one of the largest empires in the world at that time. Due to the complexity and topographical

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    Peru Culture

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    Peru Peruvian Culture The Nazca people were the architects of the Awesomeness that is the Nazca lines. The lines are a series of drawings across over 50 miles of the southern Peruvian desert‚ called geoglyphs. They are sort of like hyrogliphs but massive These drawings include the famous monkey‚ spider‚ bird‚ and waving human figure‚ as well as several other smaller lines and drawings. The drawings are huge‚ large enough that they can only be made out vaguely from viewing towers. They are best

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    Christina Miranda  Thomas Santos  Luke Brown  Cesar Santiago  Ariel Hallums  One Pager     The Origin and Spread of Agriculture:  Hunters and Gatherers~  ● Humans first sustained themselves as hunters & gatherers  ● Hunters were responsible for killing and capturing animal and using their hunt for food‚  clothing‚ or tools; Gatherers were learned how to tell which plants or fruits were edible  ● Early technology consisted of shaping stones into tools and weapons for hunt  ● Mostly ​ nomadic societies​

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    the cold earth. After death‚ the common people were buried‚ whereas the respected were mummified. Sacrifices were often made after natural disasters in hopes to appease angry gods. With Spanish conquest came the end of Inca religion and the start of Peru Catholicism. Much like the Day of the Dead celebrated by Mexico‚ the Inca believe in two kinds of deaths (Incan Religion). The death of your body is your biological death in which you leave the vessel that will be buried. The other death is spiritual

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    Picchu is a protected site as well as a travel destination. GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION Machu Picchu is in south-central Peru‚ 75 km northwest of Cuzco in the highest part of the eastern Andes‚ sited on a narrow ridge 650m above the Rio Urubamba‚ an upper tributary of the Amazon‚ at 13°10’19” to 13°14’00”S by 72°30’05” to 72°34’33”W. LAND TENURE The Republic of Peru‚ Department of Cuzco (Peruvian Delegation to UNESCO‚

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    I was to conquer the southern territory of Peru and establish a spanish province there. Along with my brothers‚ I traveled there where I found the Incas‚ I couldn’t of got there at a better time! The incas were torn in a civil war to see who would become king next. Atahualpa‚ son of the former king

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    Inca empire also known as the Tawantinsuyu to the Incas was founded in 15th century A.D by a small city name Cuzco or modern day Peru which rapidly expanded. This was all due to the first emperor/Carpa Pachacuti who came into power after stopping the invasion of one of their rival groups the Cuzco was named the Chancas and ruled from 1438-1471. The rapid expansion was due to the key factors that it was located between two other empires‚ the Wari and the Tiwanaku which allowed them to use

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    recreation as well. Stirrups ceramic bottles in for of men playing musical instruments. Moche and Salinar styles. Peru the skeletal figure playing the panpipe suggests the link between music death and fertility in ancient beliefs. The samples of music playing of the instruments they had on display was calm and relaxing. I also researched the Inca culture since you came back from your Peru trip raving about it to the class. I found it interesting to learn about their culture. I learned that practically

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    of different foods. 1 McEwan‚ Gordon Francis. The Incas New Perspectives. Santa Barbara‚ Calif. W. W. Norton & Company‚ 2006. 90 Shown in the image above is an Inca circular terrace which was used to increase the agricultural yield3 in Moray‚ Peru constructed during 15-16th century CE. To maximize the production the Incas transformed the land constructing various terraces‚ canals‚ and irrigation networks shown in the image above and were not strangers to use fertilizer. Workers in the

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