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Civilization In The Brazilian Jungle

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This civilization trades with rocks. In other words, their money in this civilization is rocks. Rocks are valuable and the bigger the rock, the more prices it contains. On people’s free time, people dance to forget about the bad things that have happened in life. Life isn’t always perfect so I think that this is very clever. To conclude this presentation, the civilization in the Brazilian Jungle is quite fascinating and interesting. The way people of this country acts is very comforting and clever. They trade with rocks, dance to forget about bad things, communicate, have an equality civilization, believe in Greek Gods, use collage art, transport things using significant carriers that are successful. During the observation of this post,

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