runs directly through the city of São Paulo, Brazil, and Chile’s Atacama Desert, which reveals that most of South America is in the zone of the tropics to the north.

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the roman republic began to expand when rome fought the punic wars and defeated carthage. the punic wars refer to the series of 3 wars fought among rome and carthage, before it ended in carthage's defeat.