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The Latin American economy is an export-based economy consisting of individual countries in the geographical regions of North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. The socioeconomic patterns of what is now called Latin America were set in the colonial era when the region was controlled by the Spanish and Portuguese empires.
In Mesoamerica and the highland Andean regions, complex indigenous civilizations developed as agricultural surpluses allowed social and political hierarchies to develop. In central Mexico and the central Andes where large sedentary, hierarchically organized populations lived, large tributary regimes (or empires) emerged, and there were cycles of ethno-political control of territory, which ...
The history of South America is the study of the past, particularly the written record, oral histories, and traditions, passed down from generation to generation on the continent of South America. The continent continues to be home to indigenous peoples, some of whom built high civilizations prior to the arrival of Europeans in the late 1400s ...
Since the colonial era, the economic history of Mexico has been characterized by resource extraction, agriculture, and a relatively underdeveloped industrial sector. . Economic elites in the colonial period were predominantly Spanish-born, active as transatlantic merchants and mine owners, and diversifying their investments with the landed
Bureaucrats, planters, and workers: The making of the tobacco monopoly in Bourbon Mexico (University of Texas Press, 1992). Goodman, Jordan. Tobacco in History and Culture: An Encyclopedia (2 vol. 2005) Hanson, Carl A. "Monopoly and Contraband in the Portuguese Tobacco Trade, 1624-1702." Luso-Brazilian Review 19.2 (1982): 149–168. Harrison ...
Monopoly, Parker Brothers' world-famous board game for budding capitalists, first went on sale on Feb. 6, 1935. In the depths of the Great Depression, Monopoly offered weary families a way to ...
South America ranks fifth [10] in terms of nominal GDP by continent, behind North America and after Oceania. South America has two major trade blocks: Mercosur and the Andean Community. Brazil is the largest economy in South America in terms of Nominal GDP, it has a vast and diverse economic landscape encompassing agriculture, manufacturing ...
In 1900, the United Fruit Company produced The Golden Caribbean: A Winter Visit to the Republics of Colombia, Costa Rica, Spanish Honduras, Belize and the Spanish Main – via Boston and New Orleans written and illustrated by Henry R. Blaney. The travel book featured landscapes and portraits of the inhabitants pertaining to the regions where ...