Examples of Nazca Lines in the following topics:
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- The geoglyphs of Nazca, or "Nazca Lines," are a series of geometric shapes, extended lines that run for miles, and large drawings of animal figures (some as large as a football field) constructed on the desert floor in the Nazca region.
- A large number of people over an extended period of time could have constructed the lines.
- The contrast of the red desert pebbles and the lighter earth beneath would make the lines visible from a high altitude.
- Several theories have been posited as to why the Nazca Lines exist, but the true meaning of the geoglyphs remains a mystery.
- These Nazca lines, called The Hummingbird, are representative of the type of structures that remain.
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- Walk-in wells, similar to those of the Nazca, were developed to draw water.
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- Although this skull predates the Inca Empire, and is from the Nazca culture, Inca elites would reshape infants' skulls in a similar manner to illustrate a higher class status.
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- In 1700, the senior (oldest, first-in-line) branch of the House of Habsburg became extinct with the death of Charles II of Spain.
- In 1703, Charles and Joseph, the sons of Leopold, signed the Mutual Pact of Succession, granting succession rights to the daughters of Joseph and Charles in case of complete extinction of the male line, but favoring Joseph's daughters over Charles's because Joseph was older.
- Hungary, which had an elective kingship, had accepted the house of Habsburg as hereditary kings in the male line and it was agreed that if the Habsburg male line became extinct, Hungary would once again have an elective monarchy.
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- In the aftermath of the Reformation, the Holy Roman Empire became fatally divided along religious lines and increasingly decentralized, which eventually led to its gradual demise.
- The empire then became fatally divided along religious lines, with the north, the east, and many of the major cities—Strasbourg, Frankfurt and Nuremberg—becoming Protestant while the southern and western regions largely remained Catholic.
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- The Abbasids, who ruled from Baghdad, had an unbroken line of caliphs for over three centuries, consolidating Islamic rule and cultivating great intellectual and cultural developments in the Middle East in the Golden Age of Islam.
- The Shiʻa Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi Billah of the Fatimid dynasty, who claimed descent from Muhammad's daughter, declared himself Caliph in 909 CE and created a separate line of caliphs in North Africa.
- The Fatimid dynasty broke from the Abbasids in 909 CE and created separate lines of caliphs in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, and Palestine until 1171 CE.
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- During the 1930s, the French had constructed the Maginot Line, a series of fortifications along their border with Germany.
- This line had been designed to deter a German invasion across the Franco-German border and funnel an attack into Belgium, which could then be met by the best divisions of the French Army.
- The area immediately to the north of the Maginot Line was covered by the heavily wooded Ardennes region, which French General Philippe Pétain declared to be "impenetrable" as long as "special provisions" were taken.
- The initial plan for the German invasion of France called for an encirclement attack through the Netherlands and Belgium, avoiding the Maginot Line.
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- Society
during the Vedic Period (c.1750-500 BCE) was patriarchal and patrilineal, meaning to trace ancestral
heritage through the male line.
- All priests, warriors, and tribal chiefs were men, and
descent was always through the male line.
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- A distinguished line of nomarchs rose out of Siut (or Asyut), which was a powerful and wealthy province in the south of the Heracleopolitan kingdom.
- They were succeeded by a line of kings who were all called Mentuhotep.
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- The Amratian culture (Naqada I) (4000-3500 BCE) continued making blacktop-ware, and added white cross-line-ware, which featured pottery with close, parallel, white, crossed lines.