Read the excerpt from "Machu Picchu: A City in the Sky.” Scientists have also studied the huge stone sundial in the city. The sundial has helped scientists learn about Incan religion and how the Incas kept track of time. The Incas worshipped a sun god. The sundial was part of their religion. The Incas also used it to tell time. The winter solstice was a time of celebration for the Incas. The Incas built the sundial so that the stone points directly at the sun during winter solstice. What is the best summary of the excerpt? The Incan sundial was an important religious statue built to honor a sun god that they worshipped. The sundial was a central part of the city, and it is a popular tourist attraction for scientists. By studying the Incan sundial, scientists determined the exact date of the summer and winter solstices. Studying the Incan sundial revealed Incan religious beliefs about a sun god and the importance of the winter solstice.

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one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

as in much medieval european literature, the stories contained in this collection are set within a frame story. its scene is central asia, as known as "the islands or peninsulae of india and china", where king shahryar kills his wife after discovering her infidelities and as well as any other who betrayed him.   then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills his new wife each day until no more candidates could have been found. his vizier had two daughters, scheherezade and dunyazad. the elder one -scheherezade- having devised a scheme to save herself and the others insisted that her father needed to give her in marriage to the king. each evening, she used to tell a story leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. the stories kept the king very interested, so eager to hear evey ending of each story, that he puts off her execution from day to day and finally he decided to give up with his plan. these stories are contained within the collection of 1001 nights, the bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is usually used for songs and riddles to express better the heightened emotion of them.

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