enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. History of Latin America - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Latin_America

    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 ...

  3. List of cities in the Americas by year of foundation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_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 ...

  4. Latin America - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America

    Latin America refers to a cultural region of the Americas where Romance languages are predominantly ... traditional economic and political hubs founded in the ...

  5. History of South America - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_South_America

    Amongst the oldest evidence for human presence in South America is the Monte Verde II site in Chile, suggested to date to around 14,500 years ago. [7] From around 13,000 years ago, the Fishtail projectile point style became widespread across South America, with its disppearance around 11,000 years ago coincident with the disappearance of South ...

  6. History of the Americas - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Americas

    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 ...

  7. History of Latin America–United States relations - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Latin_America...

    The 1823 Monroe Doctrine, opposed additional European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere.It held that any intervention in the political affairs of the Americas by foreign powers was a potentially hostile act against the U.S. [2] It also began Washington's policy of isolationism, stating it was necessary for the United States to refrain from entering into European affairs.

  8. General History of Latin America - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_History_of_Latin...

    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

  9. History of Colombia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Colombia

    These sites date from the Paleoindian period (18.000–8000 BCE). At Puerto Hormiga archaeological site and other sites, traces from the Archaic period in South America (~8000–2000 BCE) have been found. Vestiges indicate that there was also early occupation in the regions of El Abra, Tibitó and Tequendama in Cundinamarca.