pre-Columbian civilizations
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Navigating the Sky
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A Study of History: Fact or Fiction?
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Parlez-Vous Français? And Other Languages
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Ancient Civilizations
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American Civil War Quiz
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The Literary World (Famous Novels)
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Important Locations in U.S. History
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American Industry and Innovation
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Exploring Korea and China: Fact or Fiction?
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Charlemagne: Fact or Fiction?
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Official Languages: Fact or Fiction?
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A History of War
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Faces of European History: Fact or Fiction?
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Mohandas Gandhi: Fact or Fiction?
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History of Warfare
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Famous American Faces: Fact or Fiction?
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Warfare: Fact or Fiction?
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Nautical Exploration and Aviation: Fact or Fiction?
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10 Failed Doomsday Predictions
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List of Lists: 6 Extremely Random Historical Catalogs
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From Box Office to Ballot Box: 10 Celebrity Politicians
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11 Historical Head Turners
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10 Frequently Confused Literary Terms
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9 Diagnoses by Charles Dickens
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Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture
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10 Articles of Clothing That Deserve a Comeback
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6 Fictional Languages You Can Really Learn
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Riding Freedom: 10 Milestones in U.S. Civil Rights History
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8 Creepy Critters in the Work of Edgar Allan Poe
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Order in the Court: 10 “Trials of the Century”
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13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
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7 Monarchs with Unfortunate Nicknames
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7 Thingamabobs (Probably) on Einstein's Desk
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Bad Words: 8 Banned Books Through Time
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7 Collections of Writing Tips from Acclaimed Authors
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All the World's a Stage: 6 Places in Shakespeare, Then and Now
The rapid incorporation of so many mountain and coastal desert polities before 1532 calls for explanation. It is tempting to view such expansion in the context of the instantaneous breakup in 1532, when some of the same forces were likely to have been at work: dispersed territories, interlocked with some belonging to other powers in the region, and multiethnic and polyglot agglomerations in neighbouring valleys. Each political unit—as eventually was the case with the Inca state itself—was likely to share pastures, cultivated terraces, and beach installations; hegemonies shifted according to local and regional circumstances. The Early, Middle, and Late Horizons were temporary concatenations, and none lasted for very long. The Spanish invasion interrupted these alternations: a player had entered the field who ignored the local rules and who did not fathom the true sources of Andean wealth, which was not silver but an intimate familiarity with local conditions and possibilities and the ability to pool vastly different geographic and ecological tiers into single polities. According to the incomplete evidence provided by the Spanish eyewitnesses, the Inca themselves considered the term Inca applicable only to ... (200 of 56,443 words)Inca culture at the time of the conquest
Social and political structure