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Ecopetrol is the state-owned petroleum and natural gas producing (extracting and refining) company of Colombia, and is publicly traded in addition to operating as a government business (Ecopetrol 2010).

Tuberculosis is an airborne infectious disease caused by tubercule bacilli, spread from person to person (CDC 2011). It affects the lungs and other parts of the body, such as the brain, the kidneys and the spine.

There are four types of legal systems in existence in the modern world: civil law, common law, customary law, and religious law. All four types of legal systems have lengthy histories and share some common elements.

For hundreds of years, maritime expansion represented the only way to reach distant shores, to attack enemies across channels of water, to explore uncharted territories, to make trade with regional neighbors and to connect the comprised empires. Leading directly into the 20th century, this was the chief mode of making war, maintaining occupations, colonizing lands and conducting the transport of goods acquired by trade or force. Peter Padfield theorized that ultimately, British maritime power was decisive in creating breathing space for liberal democracy in the world, as opposed to the autocratic states of continental Europe like Spain, France, Prussia and Russia. The Hapsburgs, the Bourbons, Hitler and Stalin all failed to find a strategy that would defeat the maritime empires, which controlled the world's trade routes and raw materials. Successful maritime powers like Britain and, in the 20th Century, the United States, required coastlines with deep harbors and security from aggressive neighbors that Germany, France and Russia lacked. This allowed them to concentrate on trade and commerce, and to develop powerful mercantile classes that won a share of power in government. Britain and Holland were the "first supreme maritime powers of the modern age", succeeded by the United States after the world wars of 1914-18 and 1939-45, and the fact that democratic institutions developed first in relatively open societies like these was not coincidental. Of course, the United States was a very weak maritime power in the 18th Century and its navy hardly existed, yet the Battle of Chesapeake Bay in 1781 was the key event that enabled it to win its independence. It depended on French and Spanish sea power to divert the British Navy to other theaters of the war, such as India, the Caribbean, Gibraltar or the defense of the home islands and in the end this strategy was successful enough so that at a crucial moment of the war, Britain temporarily lost its maritime supremacy in North American waters.

The cultures and kingdoms which dominated ancient Peru before the medieval arrival of Spanish conquerors would be among the most advanced and sophisticated of early civilizations. Their accomplishments sociologically and technologically were of particular importance to the advance of human evolution. The discussion here considers the roles played by agriculture, social organization and religion in the remarkable accomplishments of various early civilizations, with particular emphasis on the Incans.

The Guano industry is acknowledged as having played a vital part in the history of South America, as it had triggered a global mass movement focused on exploiting guano wherever one could find it.

Most of the artifacts traditionally recognized as part of the Moche culture revolve around a restricted and exclusive social domain (Bawden 1996). Huge pyramids, elaborate art, and exquisite crafts, all are indicative…

Paul Gauguin and Edgar Degas shared many similarities as artists. Both were Impressionists, though Degas began as a classical artist and moved on to become one of the founders of the Impressionist movement, while…

¶ … condom use. The examined studies concern, respectively, the accuracy of parents' beliefs about condom use, condom use within marriage, and adolescent males' knowledge of and use of condoms.

Most people know that Mexico is a part of the North American continent. However, people often lump the Mexican culture in with the cultures of South America because they are all considered to be Hispanic.