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    Guns‚ Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond Prologue 1. Summarize Yali’s question. This requires mentioning race‚ intelligence‚ and development of technology.  Yali asks "why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea‚ but we black people had little cargo of our own?" What Yali is asking is about the origins of inequality between countries and societies in the world.  He wants to know why people of European descent are rich and powerful while people like him

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    The ancient Inca government and the government of the United States of America have some things in common; while at the same time both very different. The powers possessed by the Inca monarch are similar to those of the U.S. government. However‚ Inca punishments for criminals are very different from American punishments for criminals. The Inca government had a very strong structure‚ which enabled it to last for hundreds of years. One major distinction between the two governments though‚ is that the

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    Republic of Peru

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    Peru has been lately a raising economy in Latin America here I will give you a little introduction to Peru’s relevant information such as history and actual facts. Peru was the seat of several prominent Andean civilizations‚ most notably that of the Incas whose empire was captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1533. Peruvian independence was declared in 1821‚ and remaining Spanish forces defeated in 1824. President Alberto FUJIMORI’s election in 1990 ushered in a decade that saw a dramatic turnaround

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    During the time before the conquest on Inca the civilization began to face a crisis. The death of their emperor Huayna Capac‚ brought about a power struggle between the two sons of the former emperor‚ that initiated a civil war. This civil war weakened the imperial state and effectuated the conquering of the Inca by Fracisco Pizaro in 1532. All these conquest and many more of the Latin Americas provide the background information of the commencement of the changes in religion and beliefs in Latin

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    period The Effects and Impact of European Expansion Writing Assignment Paragraph 1: Comparing and Contrasting the Aztecs and the Incas: The Aztecs settled in the central valley of Mexico in 1200 A.D‚ while the Incans settled in the Andes Mountains. The Aztec civilization spoke the language nahuatl but the Incans spoke Quecha. Francisco Pizarro defeated the Incas civilization with only few hundreds of men and The Aztecs were conquered by a conquistador named Hernan Cortes‚ who destroyed the

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    Andes Fold Mountains Dimensions Length of Andes: 7‚000 km Average Height of Andes: 4‚000 m Width of Andes: 500 km Countries the Andes Covers: Argentina‚ Bolivia‚ Chile‚ Colombia‚ Ecuador‚ Peru‚ and Venezuela How were the Andes formed? The Andes were formed due to the compression‚ the act of tending to come together from different direction of plate boundary‚ just off the western coast of the continent of South America. The oceanic crust is being forced against the continental crust which

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    Peru or Biru

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    Rhode Island. Westward‚ into or over the Andes Mountains‚ are extreme separation in culture and value. Here you can find some of the world’s highest mountains‚ like the Huascaran and the Yerupaja (Flores). Peru’s high Andes are the land of the Incas; the Incas were the native South American people that once ruled one of the largest and richest empires. Their empire covered much of present-day Ecuador‚ Peru‚ Bolivia‚ and Chile and parts of Columbia and Argentina. Spain invaded in the 16th century and

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    It represents prosperity. Prosperity means good fortune or a success/successful. The cornucopia is golden because the flag was formed during the golden period of Inca. The cornucopia is spilling out coins‚ this stands for mineral health. During this project I learned about the different meanings and parts of the Peruvian flag. The 3 features important to Peru are the Cinchona tree‚ the Red and the White‚ and

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    Effect of Colonization on Europe and the Americas Colonization of the Americas by European nations was a significant historical event that began in the 15th century. Starting with Portugal’s forays into overseas exploration‚ the phenomenon soon spread to different European countries‚ with Spain and Portugal divvying up the South American continent. Discoveries in the new world led to economic growth in Europe. Meanwhile‚ introduction of European ideas led to an overhaul of the Native American economy

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    In Carolyn Dean’s “The Trouble with (the Term) Art” (2006)‚ the author explores the significance of the word art itself and dives into the deeper meaning of not only what art is‚ but when a piece can be labeled as art. Carolyn Dean successfully accomplishes her goal of providing readers with knowledge about the consequences of identifying art‚ where such a notion did or did not occur. Although Dean is pretty opinionated throughout the article‚ she backs up all of her thoughts by providing ample amounts

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