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    Also in the Nazca desert of Peru lay a series of geoglyph lines, called the Nazca Lines, which can only be seen from the sky. The Nazca lines are believed to have been created by the Nazca culture between 400 and 650 AD. The hundreds of figures range from simple lines to complex configurations of hummingbirds, spiders, monkeys, fish, sharks, orcas, and lizards. The largest of these figures are over 660 feet (200m) across. The local legend involves the landing of strange men near Ecuador.…

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    South America. I believe that this particular formation will continue to form more and more volcanos as time goes by. This would most likely happen because of the subduction boundary going on (South American plate is continental, Nazca Plate is oceanic), and if the Nazca boundary continues to push underneath the South American one, it will cause the plate to liquify, which accordingly would cause eruptions. Because of the eruptions, the volcano would continue…

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    measuring more than 600 feet across. These figures can only be appreciated from the air because of their colossal size. These lines are heavily studded with crystal. The Nazca people, inhabited the area between 300 B.C. and 800 A.D. and there is no evidence that they used or invented flying machines however, prior to the Nazca people, the Paracus people inhabited the region. It is they that may have invented these craft and, according to ancient alien theorists, they may have been used for…

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    The were famous for their creation of the Nazca geoglyphs around 600CE. The villagers of the chiefdom would create large geometrical and animal figures in the dry highlands. The shamans of the age would use the geoglyphs in specific rituals. What makes the geoglyphs so significant is that they are unique to the Andes and they had no parallel until the The Incas arranged sacred objects nearly a millennium later. The Nazca lines were a great…

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    The universe is an infinitely growing sphere which is calculated to be 46.5 billion light years in diameter. This sphere contains the space in which billions of stars are contained. Some of these regions have small rocks called planets. Humans inhabit one of these planets which is instilled in a perfect system called the solar system. However, mankind may not be the only ones to have a system in which life can thrive on. There may be others that live in their own planets like us. In fact, some…

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    1. Describe the geography of your civilization. The Andes are a mountain range in South America. The mountain range is the second highest in the world, and the longest mountain range (4,500 miles long) in the world running from Colombia to Chile. They comprise much of the western coast of south america and the the nations within the andes are Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Chile. 2. When did your civilization begin? Because the Andes is not civilization but a region, there is no one…

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    for its stark, desolate quality and also for the features of the lake, which turns bright red seasonally due to the salt and bacteria that thrive in it. However, along with Great Serpent Mound, the Spiral Jetty is reminiscent of the Nazca lines found in Peru. Nazca lines are a series of ancient geoglyphs that have been found in the arid and isolated areas and usually depicted figures of animals, flowers and geometric shapes. They were made by digging up shallow lines of rock and pebble to…

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    In the early 1970, millions of people in the United States began to fill the streets, parks, and cities to celebrate the nation’s first Earth Day. This, as well as passage of the Clean Air act and the Clean Water act had kick started the nation, and the western’s world new movement towards conservation and planet protecting. The start of the movement yielded many excellent laws such as the Marine Mammal Protection act, a law that protected marine mammals. It seemed like there was no end to what…

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    (Tiahuanacu): This special construction exist in Bolivia, one of the most famous areas there because it has been steadfast in this figure 17,000 years scientists believe that it used in its construction technology are not known till now  10. The Nazca Lines (Nazca lines): The most ambiguous in Peru a huge pictures easily painted apparently by giant hand not known scientists and geologists so far have not been painted these pictures or how it had been painted but scientists expect that these…

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    Peru is western of Brazil and is southern of Columbia and Venezuela. Peru borders the Pacific Ocean and is the third largest country in South America. One of Peru’s most popular attractions is Machu Picchu, a lost (and found) city of the Incas. The Nazca lines are…

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