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The idea that a part of the Americas has a cultural or racial affinity with all Romance cultures can be traced back to the 1830s, in particular in the writing of the French Saint-Simonian Michel Chevalier, who postulated that this part of the Americas were inhabited by people of a "Latin race," and that it could, therefore, ally itself with "Latin Europe" in a struggle with "Teutonic Europe ...
Latin America refers to a cultural region of the Americas where Romance languages are predominantly ... traditional economic and political hubs founded in the ...
Originally founded as Villanueva de La Serena, the city was destroyed completely in a native uprising in 1549 and re-founded the same year as San Bartolomé de La Serena; its founding date is for this reason sometimes listed as 1549. Second oldest European city in Chile. 1545: Potosí: Potosí: Bolivia: 1545 San Juan de los Remedios: Villa ...
Following the December 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, most of Latin America either severed relations with the Axis powers or declared war on them. As a result, many nations (including all of Central America , the Dominican Republic , Mexico , Chile , Peru , Argentina , and Venezuela ) suddenly found that they were now dependent on the ...
On the continent, Panama City on the Pacific coast of Central America, founded on August 15, ... Latin America is typically contrasted with Anglo-America, ...
Although the overseas territories under the jurisdiction of the Spanish crown are now commonly called "colonies" the term was not used until the second half of 18th century. The process of Spanish settlement, now called "colonization" and the "colonial era" are terms contested by scholars of Latin America [2] [3] [4] and more generally. [5]
Map of early human migrations based on the Out of Africa theory; figures are in thousands of years ago (kya). [2]The peopling of the Americas began when Paleolithic hunter-gatherers (Paleo-Indians) entered North America from the North Asian Mammoth steppe via the Beringia land bridge, which had formed between northeastern Siberia and western Alaska due to the lowering of sea level during the ...
Volume VII: National Latin American Projects: Instruments and Articulation (1870–1930) (Los Proyectos Nacionales Latinoamericanos: Sus Instrumentos y Articulación (1870–1930)) Edited by Enrique Ayala Mora and Eduardo Posada Carbó. Volume VIII: Latin America Since 1930 (América Latina Desde 1930) Edited by Marco Palacios and Gregorio Weinberg