Nazca People

The Nazca flourished from 1-750 A.D. on the arid southern coast of Peru river valley of the Rio Grande. The Nazca were a polytheistic people whose religion centered on agriculture and fertility. Nazca art depicts  powerful nature gods such as the mythical killer whale, harvesters, the spotted cat, and the serpentine creature. Nazca society was made up of local chiefdoms, a little like the city states of Greece. An important ceremony that the Nazca people would take part in was a ceremony called cahuachi. The cahuachi are burial mounds, many scholars have developed theories drawn from the various excavations suggest that the site was used for various rituals, and feasting. The Nazca also had an impressive aqueduct system known as puquios, that still function to this day. Being heavily influenced by the Paracas style of textiles, the Nazca would  follow in their footsteps, and produced  a variety of beautiful polychrome pottery, with 15 colors. The Nazca culture is well know for it's geoglyphs that depicted various animals, and it is rumored that the Nazca line builders may have known Pheonician writting spelled out in stone heaps found on the Palpa mountian.Much is to be learned from the mysterious Nazca people.

Introduction

I was born in 496 B.C,  my father was Xanthippus, famous politician and general. I am the champion of Democracy,  I am Pericles the great statesman, and general of Athens. As a young boy my parents pushed me to become a successful politician, but I detested public speaking, and for the most part an introvert, that is until I met the scholar Anaxgoras. He taught me how to remain calm while speaking to the public, how to relax, and be more sociable around people. I pursued a political career at the early age of 17, after inheriting my parents wealth. Finally after exiling my opponent Cimon I gained the status as leader of Athens, and i held that title until death. I led Athens to it's Golden age after constructing the Parthenon. I inspired the people of Athens to take up arms when war with the formidable Spartans arose, "Freedom is secure for all who have the courage to defend it." Winning the war was not going to be easy, the Spartans were unbeatable in land battles, but never the sea. The war soon turned against the Spartans, and they soon proposed a truce.But the victory was short lived, soon after te truce was made Greece was ravaged by a grusome plague that claimed the lives of my wife and both of my sons. I fell into a deep depression, to make matters worse I was betrayed by the people I swore to protect. It was not long before I too, fell victim to the plague, but as shortly after my passing the truce with the spartans was broken and the war went into their favor.