Examples of La Venta in the following topics:
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- They lived in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico, in the present-day states of Veracruz and Tabasco, and had their center in the city of La Venta.
- Here the Olmec constructed permanent city-temple complexes at San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán, La Venta, Tres Zapotes, and Laguna de los Cerros.
- Trading helped the Olmec build their urban centers of San Lorenzo and La Venta.
- Remains of the last capital of the Olmec society, La Venta, include this religious site where elites most likely performed rituals.
- Surviving art, like this relief of a king or chief found in La Venta, help provide clues about how Olmec society functioned.
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- For instance, the site of La Blanca featured a central mound more than seventy-five feet tall.
- Beginning around 900 BCE, the Pacific coastal region fell under the dominance of the La Blanca statelet, which collapsed around 600 BCE, to be replaced by a polity centered around the El Ujuxte site.
- During this period, the Olmec culture reached its zenith, centered around the capital of La Venta in modern-day Tabasco near the early Maya centers.
- Their capital city of La Venta contains extensive earthworks and stone monuments, including several of the distinctive Olmec stone heads.
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- Velázquez's most famous painting is the celebrated Las Meninas, in which the artist includes himself as one of the subjects.
- Located in the town of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, it comprises two architectural complexes of great historical and cultural significance: El Real Monasterio de El Escorial itself and La Granjilla de La Fresneda, a royal hunting lodge and monastic retreat.
- The other great dramatist of the 17th century was Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–1681).
- Mystical literature in Spanish reached its summit with the works of San Juan de la Cruz and Teresa of Ávila.
- Because of these complexities, Las Meninas has been one of the most widely analyzed works in Western painting.
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- Maria Theresa of Austria had signed the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748 in order to gain time to rebuild her military forces and forge new alliances.
- The 1748 Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, after the War of the Austrian Succession, left Austria aware of the high price it paid for having Britain as an ally.
- This map shows Europe in the years after the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle 1748 and the Seven Years' War (1756-1763).
- Although the War of Austrian Succession concluded with the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748), nearly all major powers involved were not satisfied with its outcome.
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- Jose de la Cruz Porfirio Diaz Mori strengthened his regime
in order to create the internal order necessary to foster economic development;
however, his authoritarian grasp on the presidency sparked the Mexican
Revolution.
- Jose de la Cruz Porfirio Diaz Mori was a Mexican soldier and
politician.
- Diaz launched the Plan de la Noria, a revolutionary call to arms
with the intent of ousting Mexican President Benito Juarez, on November 8,
1871.
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- Despite his victory, Louis XV, who wanted to appear as an arbiter and not as a conqueror, agreed to restore all his conquests back to the defeated enemies with chivalry at the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748, arguing that he was "king of France, not a shopkeeper."
- The military successes of the War of the Austrian Succession inclined the French public to overlook Louis's adulteries, but after 1748, in the wake of the anger over the terms of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, pamphlets against the king's mistresses became increasingly widely published and read.
- The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle turned out to be only a short-lived truce in the conflict between Austria and Prussia over the province of Silesia while France and Britain were in conflict over colonial possessions.
- Europe in the years after the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748, source: Wikipedia.
- In the aftermath of the War of Austrian Succession in France, there was a general resentment at what was seen as a foolish throwing away of advantages (particularly in the Austrian Netherlands, which had largely been conquered by the brilliant strategy of Marshal Saxe), and it came to be popular in Paris to use the phrases Bête comme la paix ("Stupid as the peace") and La guerre pour le roi de Prusse ("The war for the king of Prussia").
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- It emerged from the earlier Las Vegas culture, and thrived on the Santa
Elena peninsula near the modern-day town of Valdivia, Ecuador, between 3500-1800
BCE.
- Valdivian pottery is the oldest in America, on display in this image at the
Museo de La Plata in Argentina.
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- Mural Sueño de una Tarde Dominical en la Alameda Central in Mexico City, featuring Rivera and Frida Kahlo standing by La Calavera Catrina.
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- The rightists within the assembly consisted of about 260 Feuillants
(constitutional monarchists), whose chief leaders, Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette and Antoine Barnave, remained outside the Assembly, because of their ineligibility for re-election.
- They were called the Marsh (Le Marais) or the Plain (La Plaine).
- Medal of the First French Legislative Assembly (1791-1792), Augustin Challamel, Histoire-musée de la république Française, depuis l'assemblée des notables, Paris, Delloye, 1842.
- The People Storming the Tuileries on 20 June, 1792, Jacques-Antoine Dulaure, Esquisses historiques des principaux événemens de la révolution, v. 2, Paris, Baudouin frères, 1823.
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- The rightists within the assembly consisted of about 260 Feuillants, whose chief leaders, Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette and Antoine Barnave, remained outside the House, because of their ineligibility for re-election.
- They were called "the Marsh" (Le Marais) or "the Plain" (La Plaine).
- The Jacobins had a significant presence in the National Convention, and were dubbed 'the Mountain'
(French: la montagne)
for their seats in the uppermost part of the chamber.
- The Girondins in the La Force Prison after their arrest.