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120 relations: Acid, Alkali, Alpaca, Amazonas Region, Andean civilizations, Andes, Anthropology, Archaeology, Archaeology (magazine), Archive, Arid, Arithmetic, Ate District, Aymara, Aymara language, Berlin, Blas Valera, Camelid, Caral, Cellulose, Census, Chinese knotting, Code, Color, Color code, Cotton, Cusco–Collao Quechua, Data system, Decimal, Dye, Ectoparasitic infestation, El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno, English language, Ethnological Museum of Berlin, Europe, Exoskeleton, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, Fiber, Figure-eight knot, Francisco Pizarro, Fumigation, Fungicide, Gary Urton, Germany, Guanaco, Hair, Harvard University, Hernando Pizarro, History of China, Humidity, ..., HVAC, Ica, Peru, Inca Empire, Insect, Kingdom of Cusco, Knot, Labour economics, Larva, Leimebamba District, Library science, Light, Lima, List of historians, Llama, Logogram, Magistrate, Mausoleum, Mit'a, Mold, Mordant, Munich, Museum, Museum Five Continents, National Museum of the Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Peru, Lima, National University of San Marcos, Native Hawaiians, Norte Chico civilization, North America, Output (economics), Overhand knot, Oyón Province, Pacha Kamaq, Pachacamac, Paper, Paracas culture, Peru, PH, Phonology, Positional notation, Puruchuco, Quechuan languages, Raimondo di Sangro, Ritual, Ruth Shady, Science (journal), Solvent, South America, Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, Spanish Empire, Spanish language, String (structure), Tax, Temperature, Textile, The New York Times, Thread (yarn), Three-dimensional space, Toponymy, Tribute, Turn (knot), UCL Institute of Archaeology, Ultraviolet, University of California, Santa Barbara, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Vicuña, Wampum, Wari culture, William Burns Glynn, Wool, Writing system. Expand index (70 more) »
Acid
An acid is a molecule or ion capable of donating a hydron (proton or hydrogen ion H+), or, alternatively, capable of forming a covalent bond with an electron pair (a Lewis acid).
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Alkali
In chemistry, an alkali (from Arabic: al-qaly “ashes of the saltwort”) is a basic, ionic salt of an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal chemical element.
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Alpaca
The Alpaca (Vicugna pacos) is a species of South American camelid, similar to, and often confused with the llama.
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Amazonas Region
Amazonas is a region of northern Peru bordered by Ecuador on the north and west, Cajamarca Region on the west, La Libertad Region on the south, and Loreto Region and San Martín Region on the east.
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Andean civilizations
The Andean civilizations were a patchwork of different cultures and peoples that developed from the Andes of Colombia southward down the Andes to northern Argentina and Chile, plus the coastal deserts of Peru and northern Chile.
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Andes
The Andes or Andean Mountains (Cordillera de los Andes) are the longest continental mountain range in the world.
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Anthropology
Anthropology is the study of humans and human behaviour and societies in the past and present.
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Archaeology
Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of humanactivity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.
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Archaeology (magazine)
Archaeology is a bimonthly magazine for the general public, published by the Archaeological Institute of America.
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Archive
An archive is an accumulation of historical records or the physical place they are located.
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Arid
A region is arid when it is characterized by a severe lack of available water, to the extent of hindering or preventing the growth and development of plant and animal life.
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Arithmetic
Arithmetic (from the Greek ἀριθμός arithmos, "number") is a branch of mathematics that consists of the study of numbers, especially the properties of the traditional operations on them—addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
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Ate District
Ate, also known as Ate-Vitarte, is a district of the Lima Province in Peru.
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Aymara
Aymara may refer to: In language and people.
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Aymara language
Aymara (Aymar aru) is an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Andes.
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Berlin
Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany, as well as one of its 16 constituent states.
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Blas Valera
Three signatures of Blas Valera (private collection, C. Miccinelli - Naples (Italy)) Blas Valera was born in Levanto, Chachapoyas, Peru, in 1545.
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Camelid
Camelids are members of the biological family Camelidae, the only currently living family in the suborder Tylopoda.
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Caral
Caral, or Caral-Chupacigarro, was a large settlement in the Supe Valley, near Supe, Barranca Province, Peru, some north of Lima.
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Cellulose
Cellulose is an organic compound with the formula, a polysaccharide consisting of a linear chain of several hundred to many thousands of β(1→4) linked D-glucose units.
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Census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population.
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Chinese knotting
Chinese knotting is a decorative handicraft art that began as a form of Chinese folk art in the Tang and Song dynasty (960–1279 CE) in China.
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Code
In communications and information processing, code is a system of rules to convert information—such as a letter, word, sound, image, or gesture—into another form or representation, sometimes shortened or secret, for communication through a communication channel or storage in a storage medium.
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Color
Color (American English) or colour (Commonwealth English) is the characteristic of human visual perception described through color categories, with names such as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, or purple.
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Color code
A color code or colour code is a system for displaying information by using different colors.
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Cotton
Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.
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Cusco–Collao Quechua
Cusco–Collao (Spanish, also Cuzco–Collao) or Qusqu–Qullaw (Quechua) is a collective term used for Quechua dialects that have aspirated and ejective plosives, apparently borrowed from Aymaran languages.
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Data system
Data system is a term used to refer to an organized collection of symbols and processes that may be used to operate on such symbols.
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Decimal
The decimal numeral system (also called base-ten positional numeral system, and occasionally called denary) is the standard system for denoting integer and non-integer numbers.
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Dye
A dye is a colored substance that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is being applied.
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Ectoparasitic infestation
An ectoparasitic infestation is a parasitic disease caused by organisms that live primarily on the surface of the host.
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El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno
El primer nueva crónica y buen gobierno (English: The First New Chronicle and Good Government), is a Peruvian chronicle finished around 1615.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
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Ethnological Museum of Berlin
The Ethnological Museum of Berlin (Ethnologisches Museum Berlin.) is one of the Berlin State Museums (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.), the de facto national collection of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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Exoskeleton
An exoskeleton (from Greek έξω, éxō "outer" and σκελετός, skeletós "skeleton") is the external skeleton that supports and protects an animal's body, in contrast to the internal skeleton (endoskeleton) of, for example, a human.
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Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala
Felipe Huaman Poma de Ayala (ca. 1535Fane, 165 – after 1616), also known as Guamán Poma or Wamán Poma, was a Quechua nobleman known for chronicling and denouncing the ill treatment of the natives of the Andes by the Spanish after their conquest.
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Fiber
Fiber or fibre (see spelling differences, from the Latin fibra) is a natural or synthetic substance that is significantly longer than it is wide.
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Figure-eight knot
The figure-eight knot or figure-of-eight knot is a type of stopper knot.
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Francisco Pizarro
Francisco Pizarro González (– 26 June 1541) was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that conquered the Inca Empire.
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Fumigation
Fumigation is a method of pest control that completely fills an area with gaseous pesticides—or fumigants—to suffocate or poison the pests within.
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Fungicide
Fungicides are biocidal chemical compounds or biological organisms used to kill parasitic fungi or their spores.
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Gary Urton
Gary Urton is the Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian Studies at Harvard University.
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Germany
Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.
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Guanaco
The guanaco (Lama guanicoe) is a camelid native to South America.
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Hair
Hair is a protein filament that grows from follicles found in the dermis.
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Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Hernando Pizarro
Hernando Pizarro y de Vargas (born between 1478 and 1508, died 1578) was a Spanish conquistador and one of the Pizarro brothers who ruled over Peru.
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History of China
The earliest known written records of the history of China date from as early as 1250 BC,William G. Boltz, Early Chinese Writing, World Archaeology, Vol.
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Humidity
Humidity is the amount of water vapor present in the air.
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HVAC
Heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) is the technology of indoor and vehicular environmental comfort.
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Ica, Peru
The city of Ica is the capital of the Ica Region in southern Peru.
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Inca Empire
The Inca Empire (Quechua: Tawantinsuyu, "The Four Regions"), also known as the Incan Empire and the Inka Empire, was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America, and possibly the largest empire in the world in the early 16th century.
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Insect
Insects or Insecta (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates and the largest group within the arthropod phylum.
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Kingdom of Cusco
The Kingdom of Cusco (sometimes spelled Cuzco and in Quechua Qosqo or Qusqu) was a small kingdom based in Cusco on the Andean mountain ranges that began as a small city-state founded by the Incas around the start of 13th century.
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Knot
A knot is a method of fastening or securing linear material such as rope by tying or interweaving.
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Labour economics
Labour economics seeks to understand the functioning and dynamics of the markets for wage labour.
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Larva
A larva (plural: larvae) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into adults.
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Leimebamba District
Leimebamba (or Leymebamba) is a district of the province of Chachapoyas, located in the northern Peruvian department of Amazonas, in the valley of the Utcubamba River, about 60 kilometers (37 miles) south of Chachapoyas.
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Library science
Library science (often termed library studies, library and information science, bibliothecography, library economy) is an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary field that applies the practices, perspectives, and tools of management, information technology, education, and other areas to libraries; the collection, organization, preservation, and dissemination of information resources; and the political economy of information.
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Light
Light is electromagnetic radiation within a certain portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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Lima
Lima (Quechua:, Aymara) is the capital and the largest city of Peru.
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List of historians
This is a list of historians.
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Llama
The llama (Lama glama) is a domesticated South American camelid, widely used as a meat and pack animal by Andean cultures since the Pre-Columbian era.
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Logogram
In written language, a logogram or logograph is a written character that represents a word or phrase.
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Magistrate
The term magistrate is used in a variety of systems of governments and laws to refer to a civilian officer who administers the law.
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Mausoleum
A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or people.
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Mit'a
Mit'a was mandatory public service in the society of the Inca Empire.
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Mold
A mold or mould (is a fungus that grows in the form of multicellular filaments called hyphae.
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Mordant
A mordant or dye fixative is a substance used to set (i.e. bind) dyes on fabrics by forming a coordination complex with the dye, which then attaches to the fabric (or tissue).
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Munich
Munich (München; Minga) is the capital and the most populated city in the German state of Bavaria, on the banks of the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps.
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Museum
A museum (plural musea or museums) is an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance.
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Museum Five Continents
The Museum Five Continents (Museum Fünf Kontinente) in Munich, Germany is a museum for Non-European artworks and objects of cultural value.
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National Museum of the Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Peru, Lima
The Museo Nacional de Arqueología Antropología e Historia del Perú (English: National Museum of the Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Peru) is the largest and oldest museum in Peru, located on Plaza Bolívar in the Pueblo Libre district of Lima.
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National University of San Marcos
The National University of San Marcos (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, UNMSM) is a public research university in Lima, capital of Peru.
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Native Hawaiians
Native Hawaiians (Hawaiian: kānaka ʻōiwi, kānaka maoli, and Hawaiʻi maoli) are the aboriginal Polynesian people of the Hawaiian Islands or their descendants.
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Norte Chico civilization
The Norte Chico civilization (also Caral or Caral-Supe civilization)The name is disputed.
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North America
North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.
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Output (economics)
Output in economics is the "quantity of goods or services produced in a given time period, by a firm, industry, or country", whether consumed or used for further production.
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Overhand knot
The overhand knot is one of the most fundamental knots, and it forms the basis of many others, including the simple noose, overhand loop, angler's loop, reef knot, fisherman's knot, and water knot.
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Oyón Province
Oyón Province is a province of the Lima Region in Peru.
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Pacha Kamaq
Pacha Kamaq (Quechua, "Creator of the World"; also Pacha Camac, Pachacamac and Pacharurac) was the deity worshipped in the city of Pachacamac by the Ichma.
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Pachacamac
Pachacamac (Pachakamaq) is an archaeological site southeast of Lima, Peru in the Valley of the Lurín River.
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Paper
Paper is a thin material produced by pressing together moist fibres of cellulose pulp derived from wood, rags or grasses, and drying them into flexible sheets.
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Paracas culture
The Paracas culture was an Andean society existing between approximately 800 BCE and 100 BCE, with an extensive knowledge of irrigation and water management and that made significant contributions in the textile arts.
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Peru
Peru (Perú; Piruw Republika; Piruw Suyu), officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America.
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PH
In chemistry, pH is a logarithmic scale used to specify the acidity or basicity of an aqueous solution.
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Phonology
Phonology is a branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic organization of sounds in languages.
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Positional notation
Positional notation or place-value notation is a method of representing or encoding numbers.
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Puruchuco
Puruchuco is an archaeological site in Peru that was an administrative center of the Inca period (1440–1532), located in the Ate District, in Lima.
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Quechuan languages
Quechua, usually called Runasimi ("people's language") in Quechuan languages, is an indigenous language family spoken by the Quechua peoples, primarily living in the Andes and highlands of South America.
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Raimondo di Sangro
Raimondo di Sangro, Prince of Sansevero (30 January 1710 – 22 March 1771) was an Italian nobleman, inventor, soldier, writer, scientist, alchemist and freemason best remembered for his reconstruction of the Chapel of Sansevero in Naples.
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Ritual
A ritual "is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, and objects, performed in a sequestered place, and performed according to set sequence".
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Ruth Shady
Ruth Martha Shady Solís (born 29 December 1946, Callao, Perú) is a Peruvian anthropologist and archaeologist.
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Science (journal)
Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.
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Solvent
A solvent (from the Latin solvō, "loosen, untie, solve") is a substance that dissolves a solute (a chemically distinct liquid, solid or gas), resulting in a solution.
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South America
South America is a continent in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire
The Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire was one of the most important campaigns in the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
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Spanish Empire
The Spanish Empire (Imperio Español; Imperium Hispanicum), historically known as the Hispanic Monarchy (Monarquía Hispánica) and as the Catholic Monarchy (Monarquía Católica) was one of the largest empires in history.
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Spanish language
Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.
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String (structure)
String is a long flexible structure made from fibers twisted together into a single strand, or from multiple such strands which are in turn twisted together.
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Tax
A tax (from the Latin taxo) is a mandatory financial charge or some other type of levy imposed upon a taxpayer (an individual or other legal entity) by a governmental organization in order to fund various public expenditures.
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Temperature
Temperature is a physical quantity expressing hot and cold.
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Textile
A textile is a flexible material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres (yarn or thread).
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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Thread (yarn)
Thread is a type of yarn used for sewing.
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Three-dimensional space
Three-dimensional space (also: 3-space or, rarely, tri-dimensional space) is a geometric setting in which three values (called parameters) are required to determine the position of an element (i.e., point).
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Toponymy
Toponymy is the study of place names (toponyms), their origins, meanings, use, and typology.
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Tribute
A tribute (/ˈtrɪbjuːt/) (from Latin tributum, contribution) is wealth, often in kind, that a party gives to another as a sign of respect or, as was often the case in historical contexts, of submission or allegiance.
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Turn (knot)
A turn is one round of rope on a pin or cleat, or one round of a coil.
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UCL Institute of Archaeology
The UCL Institute of Archaeology is an academic department of the Social & Historical Sciences Faculty of University College London (UCL), England which it joined in 1986.
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Ultraviolet
Ultraviolet (UV) is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength from 10 nm to 400 nm, shorter than that of visible light but longer than X-rays.
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University of California, Santa Barbara
The University of California, Santa Barbara (commonly referred to as UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a public research university and one of the 10 campuses of the University of California system.
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University of Wisconsin–Madison
The University of Wisconsin–Madison (also known as University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, or regionally as UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States.
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Vicuña
The vicuña (Vicugna vicugna) or vicuna (both, very rarely spelled vicugna) is one of the two wild South American camelids which live in the high alpine areas of the Andes, the other being the guanaco.
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Wampum
Wampum is a traditional shell bead of the Eastern Woodlands tribes of American Indians.
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Wari culture
The Wari (Huari) were a Middle Horizon civilization that flourished in the south-central Andes and coastal area of modern-day Peru, from about AD 500 to 1000.
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William Burns Glynn
William Burns Glynn (1923, Manchester – 24 February 2014, Lima) was a British engineer and researcher of the Pre-Columbian era in Peru., noted for his work investigating possible Pre-Columbian writing.
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Wool
Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and other animals, including cashmere and mohair from goats, qiviut from muskoxen, angora from rabbits, and other types of wool from camelids.
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Writing system
A writing system is any conventional method of visually representing verbal communication.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu
