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  2. Inca Empire - Wikipedia

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    The Inca Empire, [a] officially known as the Realm of the Four Parts (Quechua: Tawantinsuyu, lit. "land of four parts" [ 5 ] ), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America . [ 6 ] The administrative, political, and military center of the empire was in the city of Cusco .

  3. Neo-Inca State - Wikipedia

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    At Vilcabamba the state known as the Neo-Inca State was established by Manco, and Vilcabamba became the capital of the state until the death of Tupaq Amaru in 1572. From there, he continued his attacks against the Wankas (one of the most important allies of the Spaniards), having some success after fierce battles, and to the highlands of present-day Bolivia, where after many battles his army ...

  4. Four Worlds - Wikipedia

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    In Kabbalistic interpretation, the Sulam-ladder's four main divisions are the Four Worlds and the angelic hierarchy embody external dimensions of the lights-vessels, while souls embody inner dimensions. The Four Worlds are spiritual, heavenly realms in a descending chain, although the lowest world of Assiah has both a spiritual and a physical ...

  5. Estates of the realm - Wikipedia

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    There are, first of all, the estates of the realm, but there are also the trades, the state of matrimony and that of virginity, the state of sin. At court, there are the 'four estates of the body and mouth': bread-masters, cup-bearers, carvers, and cooks. In the Church, there are sacerdotal orders and monastic orders.

  6. The fourth part of the world - Wikipedia

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    The fourth part of the world may refer to; The New World, also called "the fourth part of the world" Americae Sive Quartae Orbis Partis Nova Et Exactissima Descriptio or The Fourth Part of the World, a 1562 geographical map; The Fourth Part of the World: The Epic Story of History's Greatest Map, a 2009 book by Toby Lester

  7. Atziluth - Wikipedia

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    Atziluth is the realm of pure divinity. The four worlds of Kabbalah relate to the kabbalistic tree of life in two primary ways: the entire Tree of Life is contained in each of the four worlds; in this manner, they are described as one on top of another and in symbolic form by a diagram called Jacob's Ladder.

  8. Four continents - Wikipedia

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    This division fit the Renaissance sensibilities of the time, which also divided the world into four seasons, four classical elements, four cardinal directions, four classical virtues, etc. The four parts of the world [2] or the four corners of the world refers to Africa (the "south"), the Americas (the "west"), Asia (the "east"), and Europe ...

  9. Buddhist cosmology - Wikipedia

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    In later texts, we find the Asura realm as one of the four unhappy states of rebirth, but the Nikāya evidence however does not show that the Asura realm was regarded as a state of suffering. The foundations of the earth All of the structures of the earth, Sumeru and the rest, extend downward to a depth of 80,000 yojanas below sea level – the ...