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Peru has the largest population of Chinese descendants in Latin America since Peru became independent from Spain in 1821 and banned the import of slaves. The first group of Asians came in 1849 on the Danish ship named Federico Guillermo to replace slavery as part of the plan to abolish slavery in 1854 by replacing it with the Asian labor force.
The history of Peru spans 15 millennia, [1] extending back through several stages of cultural development along the country's desert coastline and in the Andes mountains. Peru's coast was home to the Norte Chico civilization, the oldest civilization in the Americas and one of the six cradles of civilization in the world.
Reconstruction of one of the pyramids of Aspero. After the first humans — who were then arranged into hunter-gatherer tribal groups — arrived in South America via the Isthmus of Panama, they spread out across the continent, with the earliest evidence for settlement in the Andean region dating to circa 15,000 BCE, in what archaeologists call the Lithic Period.
Migrants from that first wave are thought to have reached Peru in the 10th millennium BCE, probably entering the Amazon basin from the northwest. The Norte Chico civilization of Peru is the oldest known civilization in the Americas and one of the six sites where civilization, including the development of agriculture and government, separately ...
Peru is the world's largest producer of quinoa, and maca one of the 5 largest producers of avocado, ... the first Peruvian film in the academy's history to be ...
The Norte Chico civilization in Peru dating back to about 3500 BCE is the oldest civilization in the Americas and one of the first six independent civilizations in the world; it was contemporaneous with the Egyptian pyramids.
A Peruvian of Japanese descent, Fujimori also used racial stereotypes and phenotypes to convince Peruvians (many of whom are of Indigenous descent) that he was more like them than the ...
(in Spanish) Web portal of the Peruvian Government (in Spanish) Directory of Peruvian Government websites; General reference. BBC country profile of Peru; Peru. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. Encyclopædia Britannica entry on Peru; Peru web directory Archived 2008-10-15 at the Wayback Machine; Other. Peru travel guide from ...