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    3/18/12 Chapter 16 Assessment For Each term or name below‚ briefly explain it connection to the development of Native American cultures in North America‚ Mesoamerica‚ or South America. - Tikal’s connection to the development of Native American culture in Mesoamerica is there religion. The people believed in many gods just as the Native Americans did. They also did dances and other things to please the gods to get them great weather or prosperity. That is what the Native Americans got from the

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    Alaska during the Ice Age. Though they were hunters at first‚ by 5000 BC‚ they had become hunter-gatherers with a diet of basically corn. Great pre-European Indian cultures included the Pueblos‚ the Iroquois‚ the Mound Builders‚ the Mayans‚ the Incas‚ the Aztec‚ and the Sioux‚ among others (map of tribes on pg. 8). The Indians revered nature and land‚ and didn’t carelessly

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    coast‚ has an average February high temperature of 80˚F and in August low of 58˚F. Culture Peru has a long history that dates back to the Norte Chico civilization (a complex pre-Columbian society) and the Inca Empire. The Spanish landed on the territory in 1531 and discovered the Inca civilization. In the early 1530’s the Spain’s Francisco Pizarro (Spanish conquistador) began searching the area for wealth and by 1533 had taken over Cuzco. In 1535 Pizarro founded Lima and in 1542 a viceroyalty

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    Machu Picchu is an absoultely stunning travel destination. Why? The stonework is some of the finest. The location was once a mystery and what it used to be is exhilarating. And last‚ there is just such beautiful artwork. One of the the amazing things is that the stoneworks at Machu Picchu is in the finest quality. In the article The Stones of Machu Picchu‚ Duane Damon states‚ "...walls of white granite ashlars [stone building blocks] carefully cut and exquisilely bitted together" (Damon). What

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    Final Paper: Peru GEO 102 [pic] (fig. 1) Machu Picchu is the site of an ancient Inca city‚ high in the Andes of Peru. The Republic of Peru‚ (Spanish: República del Perú)‚ or Peru‚ is a country located on the western edge of South America. It borders Ecuador and Colombia to the north‚ Brazil to the east and Bolivia and Chile to the southeast. Peru has a complex geography dominated by the high and rugged Andes and the Pacific currents‚ which create climates and landscapes as

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    Born in Blood and Fire: Latin American Voices Essay Assignment A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies‚ Bartolome de las Casas Las Casas’ account depicts the terrible and inhumane actions that the Spaniards inflicted upon the indigenous people. He made it very clear that the indigenous people were far from deserving of this torturous treatment. He describes them as “among the purest‚ the most innocent‚ and the most intelligent.” (p.9) Las Casas points out that other Spaniards had similar

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    Charles Purkerson Jr His 108 8/27/14 Zinn Chapter 1 Zinn Q and A Q: 1. According to Zinn‚ what is his main purpose for writing A People’s History Of The United States? A: 1. Zinn’s main purpose was to give a detailed account of American history from the victim’s point of view or present the history from the point of view of the common people Q: 2. What is Zinn’s thesis for pages 1-11? A: 2. Zinn’s thesis is that Christopher

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    The collision occurred in 1492 on an island off of two large‚ vast continents. Millions of years ago‚ the northern portion of the continent was covered in thick sheets of ice. This provided the passageway for nomadic hunters from Asia to cross over from Siberia (Kennedy and Cohen 5). The descendants of these Native Americans were met with Christopher Columbus‚ who believed that he had reached the Indies. Columbus called these people “Indians” and the misnomer stuck (Kennedy and Cohen 14). Countless

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    The issue I am trying to address is that there have been so many ancient civilizations that contributed to world history that don’t get enough credit. Throughout time their have been civilizations that have contributed to world history in their own unique ways. The Incan empire lasted just shy of a century in that time they managed to develop farming techniques‚ and sturdy architecture. The Aztec empire excelled from 1345 to 1521 CE. Aztecs required mandatory education to boys girls and slaves. Finally

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    to who was the true popes were which cast doubt on the authoritative unity of the Church This essay has not been graded. Question 50 (Worth 10 points) (03.05 MC)Select two groups from the Mayans‚ Aztecs‚ and Incas and compare how they built complex governments. ESSAY SUBMISSION The Inca had someone who was basically a king‚ and below him there were four of them like in apos who ran various departments‚ basically like the United States. They also built complex governments means writing about how

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