.... The chief agricultural products, together with the approximate annual yield (in metric tons) in the late 1980s, were sugarcane (6.2 million), potatoes (2 million), rice (1.1 million), corn (880,000), seed cotton (280,000), coffee (103,000), and wheat (134,000). Peru is the world's leading grower of coca, from which the drug cocaine is refined. The livestock population included about 3.9 million cattle, 13.3 million sheep, 1.7 million goats, 2.4 million hogs, 875,000 horses and mules, and 52 million poultry. Llamas, sheep, and vicuñas provide wool, hides, and skins. The forests coverin .....

.... to adults, so they can help support their family. They learn to speak French in school. Well the lucky ones don't really do anything. The just eat and enjoy themselves. They have servants to live with them to do all their work. They get married pretty young. It is like an honor to have your daughter get married. Like my aunt got married when she was 15. She has good life. Most of the people drive moepads or Mercedes. At home they like to design there ceiling to look nice. Architecture is one of 's great arts. Most of the people wear robes called djellaba. Spain gave the Western S .....

.... In this research I will talk mostly about their building techniques, and the type of materials they used to construct there buildings, I will also mention some of the more famous buildings that were constructed at Pompeii. The buildings that were built at Pompeii were manly constructed out of a large verity of different types of stones that were found in the hills of Pompeii. the stones were retrieved from the volcanic mass from mount vesuvius. Here are some examples of the stones that the Romans used to reconstruct their buildings, the Sarno limestone it could be sawn int .....

.... last names in Thailand are now quite long. There are many historic events that made Thailand the nation that it is today. The history of Thailand has many capitals. The first capital of Thailand was Sukhothai. Sukhothai is located in northern Thailand. But from early on Thailand had many problems. One problem they faced was that they were in constant war with their neighboring country of Burma. This led to a re-location of the capital. The Thai capital changed from Sukhothai to Ayutthaya. Ayutthaya is located more towards the center of the country so; it would be difficult for .....

.... much of the land. has cold, snowy winters and warm summers. The coast has a milder climate neighboring the Adriatic. The Montenegrins name is Serbo-Croatian and the republics name is Crna Gora, which means black mountain. Podgorica, formerly Titograd, is the present day capital. The University of Podgorica is located there and is their best known university. During its time in the six republics of Yugoslavia, had one of the weakest economies of the republics. One thing holding them back from economic success was their poor network of roads and railroads. In 1976, a railroad was built f .....

.... Army in northern Palestine, Jaffa, and Jerusalem. British military forces withdrew to Haifa; although officially neutral, some commanders assisted one side or the other. After the British had departed and the state of Israel had been established on May 15, 1948, under the premiership of David BEN-GURION, the Palestine Arab forces and foreign volunteers were joined by regular armies of Transjordan (now the kingdom of JORDAN), IRAQ, LEBANON, and SYRIA, with token support from SAUDI ARABIA. Efforts by the UN to halt the fighting were unsuccessful until June 11, when a 4-week truce was de .....

.... the head of the sphinx is badly battered in some places, traces of the original paint can still be seen near one ear. Originally it is believed that the Sphinx was painted and quite colorful (Guardian 2). Because of the changing desert terrain, the body of the Sphinx has been buried and cleared several times throughout history. In between the paws of the Sphinx is a stela, now called the "Dream Stela", which is inscribed with a story. The story tells of the time that Thutmosis IV fell asleep under the Sphinx which was covered to the neck in sand. "Thutmosis had a dream that .....

.... seemingly constant high humidity abates a little in the dry season. The highlands are freezing at night, dank and chill during the rainy season, and warm and delightful in the dry season (October to May). El Petén's climate varies only from hot and humid to hot and dry. Spanish is the most commonly spoken language in Guatemala, and Roman Catholicism is the principal religion. Evangelical and Pentecostal Christian denominations have gained wide followings, while the Maya have preserved aspects of their traditional religions, often blended with Catholicism. Facts: Guatemala is called the .....

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.... were made magistrates. The jobs of the magistrates were to keep records for the Assembly and account for anything they had done. Solon started a council called the Boule which was set up in order to prepare business for the Assembly. Solon introduced ideas of democracy to Athens, but did not please all the people of Athens. After Solon, Cleisthenes built on the already present ideas helped to modernize the political system until it became renowned for it’s political system. Sparta grew not by obtaining a strong political system, but by building and maintaining a military arist .....