This is false. What you described are the meridians. Parallels are from based on north and south, starting from the middle. The main parallel is the equator which divides the Earth into two hemispheres, northern and southern, with increasing numbers towards the poles.
Port-au-Prince is the capital of Haiti. With its estimated 2012 population of 942,194, it is also Haiti's largest city.
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Primarily, the Renaissance began in Italy because this was the home of ancient Rome. The Renaissance was inspired by humanism, the rediscovery of ancient Western learning. ... Though the Renaissance spread rapidly across the length and breadth of Europe, its natural home was Italy.
-established the foundations of modern science and led to new technologies
- inspired new ways of thinking about human society based on reason and progress.
