actually just put a blank line between the definition and the text. It made sense to me, but have been reading scanned materials for years now. Shelley L. Rhodes M.A., VRT, CTVI and Guinevere, Golden lady Guide juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc. Graduate Alumni Association Board www.guidedogs.com More than Any other time, When I hold a beloved book in my hand, my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free. - Helen Keller ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Berry" <sberry@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Bookshare Volunteers" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 12:44 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] another question about the Last Days of the Incas Hello there, I have another question about this book. At the end of page 45 there are some definitions for words as you will see from the insertion I am including. I wonder how would it be best to separate the definitions from the actual text because it could become confusing when trying to read. I had to read it twice to figure out what was up. Here is the page which has the definitions: Pachacuti began rapidly to conquer the amalgam of tribes, kingdoms, and city-states that lay strewn across the Andes. Pachacuti's bold forays and those of his son, Tupac Inca, eventually culminated in the toppling of the old Chimu Empire, located on the northwestern coast. Within a single lifetime, then, Pachacuti and his son had seized a 1,400-mile stretch of the Andes, from present-day Bolivia to northern Peru, plus much of the adjacent coast. No longer were the Incas a small, pregnable group exposed to the vagaries of other kingdoms' marauding armies. Pachacuti had become the first Inca king to fashion a veritable empire?a vast, multiethnic conglomeration that had been created through conquest and that Pachacuti now ruled over with a tiny band of Inca elite. Pachacuti called his new empire Tawantinsuyu, or "the four parts united," as he divided it into four regions: Chinchaysuyu, Cuntisuyu, Collasuyu, and Antisuyu. The capital, Cuzco, lay at the intersection where all four suyus came together. In a sense, Pachacuti and Tupac Inca had created a conquest enterprise. Through threat, negotiation, or actual bloody conquest, they subjugated new provinces, determined the number of tax-paying peasants, installed a local Inca governor, and then left an administration in place that was empowered to supervise and collect taxes before their armies moved on. If cooperative, the local elites were allowed to retain their privileged positions and were rewarded handsomely for their collaboration. If uncooperative, the Incas exterminated them and wiped out their supporters. Peasants were a crop, a crop that could be harvested through periodic taxation. Docile, obedient workers who created surpluses, in fact, were a crop more valuable than any of the five thousand varieties of potatoes the Incas cultivated in the Andes, more valuable even than the vast herds of llamas and alpacas that the Incas periodically used for their meat and wool. It was the peasants and their associated lands that the Incas coveted, and it was by taxing the peasants' labor that the Inca elite continued to increase their wealth, prestige, and power. Tupac Inca, who had carried out successful campaigns in the north and on the coast, also succeeded in extending the Inca Empire farther east, marching from the high frigid plains of the Andes down into the sweltering Tttwantin in the Inca language, Quechua, means a group of four things (tawa means four with the suffix -ruin, which names a group; and suyu, which means "part"). 45 Scott To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.13.28/1021 - Release Date: 9/21/2007 2:02 PM To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.