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Слайд 13Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Edinburgh, the country's capital and second largest city, is one of Europe's largest financial centres.
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Royal Standard depict heraldic red lion on a
gold field surrounded by a red double border sprouted lilies.
Scotland’s flag is an image of a white St. Andrew's cross on a sky-blue cloth.
Слайд 15Bagpipes
Bagpipe - a national musical instrument, the unofficial symbol of Scotland.
Слайд 16Thistle
Thistle flower is semi-official national symbol of Scotland
Слайд 17Nessie
Nessie is the most famous and mysterious theme of Scottish legends.
Loch Ness Monster - the water monster, according to legend, living in Scotland's Loch Ness lake.
Слайд 20Tartan
Tartan is a fabric with an ornament of the horizontal and
vertical stripes. From the tissue with the ornamentation national dress of Scotland and kilts are sewn in particular, in Russia it is called a “plaid”.
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The Maya area also extended throughout the northern Central
American region, including the present-day nations of Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and western Honduras.
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The Maya is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known
fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems.
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Many Maya cities reached their highest state development during the Classic
period (c. 250 AD to 900 AD), and continued until the arrival of the Spanish. At its peak, it was one of the most densely populated and culturally dynamic societies in the world.
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The Maya civilization shares many features with other Mesoamerican civilizations. Advances
such as writing, epigraphy, and the calendar did not originate with the Maya; however, their civilization fully developed them.
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The Maya peoples never disappea-
red. Today, the
Maya and their descend-
ants form sizable populati-
on through
out the Maya area.
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Many Mayan languages continue to be spoken as primary languages today;
the Rabinal Achí, a play written in the Achi' language, was declared a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2005.
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As Maya cities spread throughout the varied geography of Mesoamerica, site
planning appears to have been minimal. Maya architecture tended to integrate a great degree of natural features.
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The Maya writing system (often called hieroglyphs) was a combination of
phonetic symbols and logograms. It is the only writing system of the Pre-Columbian New World which is known to completely represent the spoken language of its community.
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In common with the other Mesoamerican civilizations, the Maya used a
base 20 and base 5 numbering system. Also, the preclassic Maya and their neighbors independently developed the concept of zero by 36 BC.
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They produced extremely accurate astronomical observations; their charts of the movements
of the moon and planets are equal or superior to those of any other civilization working from naked eye observation.