Latin American history
Hemisphere's postcolonial narrative
The study of the past in the region comprising Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.
Latin American history spans indigenous civilizations like the Maya and Inca, European colonization beginning in the late fifteenth century, independence movements of the early nineteenth century, and modern struggles with authoritarianism, revolution, and economic development.
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- MayaAncient Mesoamerican people
- Dirty WarRegime attacking its populace
- Cuban RevolutionCaribbean island's 1959 overthrow
- sugar plantationsFarms growing sweetener crops
- AztecAncient Mexican civilization
Simón Bolívar · Che Guevara · coffee trade · Inca · Spanish conquest · silver mines · banana republics · Monroe Doctrine · viceroyalty · death squads · Olmec · Gabriel García Márquez · neoliberal reforms · mestizo · Sandinistas · Columbian Exchange · Toltec · liberation theology
- historyancient civilizations, past events, epochs, era, epoch
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Record of the continent's past
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