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4 days ago · Latin America is generally understood to consist of the entire continent of South America in addition to Mexico, Central America, and the islands of the Caribbean whose inhabitants speak a Romance language.
- History of Latin America
History of Latin America - Independence, Revolutions,...
- Religious Trends
In some countries, minority groups formed militant...
- Socialism, Communism, Fascism
History of Latin America - Socialism, Communism, Fascism:...
- Conquest of Peru
Peru’s history continued to be less placid than that of...
- Ethnic Diversity and Its Results
The Iberian Christians’ relations with the other peoples,...
- Types of Western Hemisphere Societies
Summarize This Article The Europeans were sedentary, living...
- Capitalism, Social Transitions
Summarize This Article The social ramifications of the rise...
- The New Order, 1850–1910
History of Latin America - Colonialism, Revolution,...
- Building New Nations, 1826–50
History of Latin America - Independence, Revolutions,...
- Indians and Spaniards
Summarize This Article In the Caribbean phase several...
- History of Latin America
4 hours ago · During the colonial period, Guatemala was an audiencia, a captaincy-general (Capitanía General de Guatemala) of Spain, and a part of New Spain (Mexico). The first capital, Villa de Santiago de Guatemala (now known as Tecpan Guatemala), was founded on 25 July 1524 near Iximché, the Kaqchikel capital city.
4 days ago · The provinces of the Kingdom of Guatemala—which included what are today the Mexican state of Chiapas and the nations of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica—had adhered to Iturbide’s Mexico by 1822. With the exception of Chiapas, these Central American provinces split off from Mexico in the wake of Iturbide’s fall.
4 days ago · Mexico - Spanish Conquest, Aztec Empire, Colonialism: After taking possession of the Aztec empire, the Spaniards quickly subjugated most of the other indigenous tribes in southern Mexico, and by 1525 Spanish rule had been extended as far south as Guatemala and Honduras.
2 days ago · When Mexico achieved its independence, the southern portion of New Spain became independent as well, as a result of the Treaty of Córdoba, so Central America, present-day Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and part of Chiapas were incorporated into the Mexican Empire. Although Mexico now had its own government, there was ...
5 days ago · The twelfth book focuses on the Spanish conquest of Mexico between 1519 and 1521. Around 1553-55, Sahagún gathered accounts from indigenous elders who lived in the Mexica (Aztec) capital of Tenochtitlan during the Spanish conquest.
3 days ago · Amerindian languages are widely spoken in Peru, Guatemala, Bolivia, Paraguay and Mexico, and to a lesser degree, in Panama, Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, and Chile. In other Latin American countries, the population of speakers of Indigenous languages tend to be very small or even non-existent, for example in Uruguay.
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