Week - 9 English 3 - 1st Term Test Revision 2013 page 10

 

 

Outstanding as ceramicity architects andastronomical cycle obsTheir ceramic usedwhich they decorated plates, cups, pdrawings, geometric shapes, and scenesceramic in its first stage had inspirationof animals and vegetables. The second sabstract figures. The third stage was ththe abstract motives with complicatemythological figures full of details. Golalso used.They lived in populated centers, wiurban design, being their main cultural cCahuachi,

built in adobe

(bricks made wipyramids. Next to this town were alsogroup of lines traced on the floor in f serpentines that embrace 1 square km.They buried their dead wrapped in mashape.

Unique place in the world

, fulmysticism, wonderful traces of immensspectacular perfection. Diverse scientificplaced on these lines. Some theories onlconstruction associated to extraterrestriNazcas’ textile art reached a high devthey did not reach the high level of theParacas’ textile art is considered as thcultures. This culture used vicuñaharmonious and with many colorsanthropomorphous and geometric, somThe great constructions of observatocycles, well-known as the

Naz

by the farmers to knometeorological agrarian cyclpossible religious significMaria Reiche's theory. ThGerman scientist was born in 1903, arriand was devoted to the study of the mysince 1948, when she established the thgreat astronomical calendar and a serieastronomical cycles.Maria Reiche regrettably died on Juneof Lima, with the eternal gratitude of    

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Mark the following sentences wit

1.

 

The Nazca Lines are officially2.

 

Professor Reiche worked in3.

 

The Nazca Lines were kilometer4.

 

Nazcas were nomads and fruit5.

 

The geoglyphs only represent6.

 

Their textiles were as advanced7.

 

Science discovered these were

c painters, weavers,uilders as well aservers.p to 11 colors, withts, with animalof daily life. Thein nature, figuresage was based one multiplication of d geometric andand copper wereth great sense of enter the citadel of th clay), ceremonialiscovered (1980) arm of trapezes andntles, with a conicalll with mystery andfigures and lines of theories have beenexplain its possiblel beings.elopment, however,Paracas Culture, asbest of all ancientwool or cotton;, animal designs,included feathers.ies of astronomical

ca Lines

, were usedand control theles, aside from theirnce, according tois archeologist and ved to Peru in 1940 sterious Nazca Linesory of their being aof observatories of 8, 1998, in the city

the Peruvian town

.Maria was buried in NMinister of State. Shonored by the Peruwith the Medal to theGreat Cross.The Nazca Lines are tplains, between the 4American Highway, wi450 square km., near thThese lines form dkilometers in length anwidth, with animal, geo

of which

can only beairplane. The figureshummingbird (see pictand the tree, among othThe Nazca Lines weretime by the Prof. GePeruvian archeologistswho denominated thebook of the worldinvestigations to detmeasure that was usedwere discovered accid1927. By the end of theOn the Pan-Americancan be found, which allonly possible way to apgiven their gigantic sizplane. You can see theover the area from Nazc

 

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h T (true), or F (false).

one of Humanity’s treasures.Peru for more than 50 years.-long lines painted on the ground.gatherers. They didn’t know agriculture.animals and daily life.and ornamental as the Paracas’.only the people’s monuments to honor their gods.

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zca, with Honors of he was previouslyian Prime Ministererit in the Degree of raced on San José and Socos desert9 and 465 km. South of the Pan-h an extension of Nazca city.rawings of severald approximately 0.4 and 1.1 km inmetric and trapezoidal forms;

some

een in all their magnitude from anof the spider, the monkey, there), the dog, the condor, the lizard,ers, stand out.investigated scientifically for the firstrman Paul Kosok, along with theJulio C. Tello and T. Mejía Xesspe,se lines as 'the biggest astronomy'. Maria Scholten

 

carried outrmine the mathematical unit of in the construction. The Nazca Linesntally from an airplane in flight in1980's new lines were discovered.Highway some observation towersow a limited vision of the lines. Thereciate them

in all their magnitude

,, is flying over the area on a lightNazca Lines and petroglyphs flyinga, Ica, Paracas, Pisco or from Lima.

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