... pierce a child's lip with a thorn. The holes are later enlarged with stalks of grass until they are long enough to insert a plug that is usually made out of clay, wood, stone or metal. The women of Southern Chad and Sudan wear lip plates that cause the mouth to protrude in a way resembling the beaks of birds, such as the Spoonbill and ... Broodbill, which the people of Chad and Sudan worship as sacred. Ethiopian women wear lip plates to gain social status and command a higher bride price. Even among the Eskimo people of Alaska, both men and women usually wore lip plugs for ... ...

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... of the Great Stupa", and the "Lion Capital". The "North torana" is an entrance for the "Great stupa". Created during the early Andhra period this art work is of pure stone. The "Lion Capital" is from an Ashokan pillar at Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh India. Created during the Maurya period. Ashoka Maurya was the master mind of both pieces. These pieces of ... unique. Style depends on many things. What the art is trying to say. The way the art work has been laid out. What characteristics and attributes give both works their sacred meaning. The power of each piece is that of how they are view fr...

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... and adapted to their culture. In 800 B.C., they learned how to make tools out of iron. By 500 B.C., they developed a written language, called Sanskrit. Priests used Sanskrit to record their sacred texts. In the Middle East, around 500 B.C., the Persian Empire came to existence. Cyrus the Great of Persia conquered a wide sweep of territory from Asia Minor to India including what ... . They also excelled in the practical arts of building, perfecting their engineering skills as they built roads, bridges, and harbors throughout the empire. Engineers built aqueducts, which are bridge like sto...

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