Peru

(noun.) a republic in western South America; achieved independence from Spain in 1821; was the heart of the Inca empire from the 12th to 16th centuries.

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• All the ancient arts of Mexico and Peru have never furnished one single manufacture to Europe. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• This was the case, too, with the mines of Cuba and St. Domingo, and even with the ancient mines of Peru, after the discovery of those of Potosi. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But the silver mines of Peru are not now able to pay even this low rent; and the tax upon silver was, in 1736, reduced from one fifth to one tenth. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The Aztecs of Mexico and the Incas of Peru used the process of fixing two metals together by the action of heat, before making up. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The sums spent upon the reception of a new viceroy of Peru, for example, have frequently been enormous. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• After the discovery of the mines of Peru, the silver mines of Europe were, the greater part of them, abandoned. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Frezier, who visited Peru in 1713, represents Lima as containing between twenty-five and twenty-eight thousand inhabitants. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• There were voyages in Japanese-built ships to India and Peru. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The silver of Peru finds its way, not only to Europe, but from Europe to China. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Neither are the profits of the undertakers of silver mines commonly very great in Peru. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• One of them was the Aztec civilization of Mexico; the other, that of Peru. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In modern times large supplies of gold were obtained after the discovery of America from Peru, Bolivia, and other parts of the New World. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Even Mexico and Peru, though they cannot be considered as altogether new markets, are certainly much more extensive ones than they ever were before. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Then he went to Peru as partner of a man who had a grizzly bear which they proposed entering against a bull in the bull-ring in that city. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Like Cortez, too, who had made a captive and tool of Montezuma, he seized the Inca of Peru by treachery, and attempted to rule in his name. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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