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Source Of Information Inca Empire
1,827 wordsThe Inca were South American Indian people who ruled one of the largest and richest empires in the America's. The Inca Empire began to expand about 1438 and occupied a vast region that centered on the capital, Cusco, in southern Peru. The Empire extended more than 2, 500 miles (4, 020 kilometers) along the western coast of South America. It included parts of Present - Day Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. The Inca Empire was conquered by Spanish Forces soon after their arri...
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Religious Ceremonies Native Americans
1,104 wordsPeyote is one type of cactus grown in southwestern U. S. and in neighboring parts of Mexico. The active ingredient in peyote is mescaline, a somewhat potent hallucinogenic chemical. It has the capability of being a psychoactive drug causing the user to change what he / she sees, thinks, and feels. Down through the centuries, it has been used as a painkiller, a stimulant, and a spiritual tool in religious ceremonies. As a controlled substance, not unlike marijuana and LSD, its use is illegal exce...
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Atlantic Slave Trade Hip Hop
1,038 wordsHip hop music and culture, once considered an American phenomenon, exists throughout the world today. In each cultural area, hip hop artists filter American and other foreign hip hop styles through their own local musical, social, and linguistic practices, creating unique musical forms. In this paper I will attempt to evaluate the visual and audio characteristics that contribute to the culture of hip-hop and produce the image of the aforementioned style which encompasses a range of related activ...
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Visual And Audio Materials In Hip Hop Industry
1,746 wordsVisual and Audio Materials in Hip-Hop Industry Hip hop music and culture, once considered an American phenomenon, exists throughout the world today. In each cultural area, hip hop artists filter American and other foreign hip hop styles through their own local musical, social, and linguistic practices, creating unique musical forms. In this paper I will attempt to evaluate the visual and audio characteristics that contribute to the culture of hip-hop and produce the image of the aforementioned s...
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Divided Into Three Chichen Itza
3,931 wordsThe The Mayas The Mayas The Maya {may-uh} was considered to be one of the greatest ancient Native American civilizations in the Americas, and possibly the world. Archeologists who dug up and studied many of the civilization sites trace the Mayas back tens of thousands of years. Their ancestors migrated from Asia across the Bering Sea and Alaska to the Americas and the Yucatan peninsula during the last ice age (Prentice 448). Early Mayan settlements date back to 2400 BC. They built massive stone ...
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Thousands Of Years Religious Ceremonies
1,707 wordsThe human use of scents, aromas and fragrances has its origins lost in ancient times. Why, when and how people first started to prepare them may never be known, but archeological findings, early written texts and oral tradition show that the history of aromas goes deep back in time. Early civilizations offered scent flowers, herbs and resins in worship of their Gods. When burned, some plants released stronger aromas and scented smoke fires became part of religious rituals, a mystical mean of com...
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