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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 ...
Cartography of Latin America, map-making of the realms in the Western Hemisphere, was an important aim of European powers expanding into the New World. Both the Spanish Empire and the Portuguese Empire began mapping the realms they explored and settled. They also speculated on the lands that were marked terra incognita. Indigenous groups ...
1800s establishments in South America (15 C) 0–9. 1800 in South America (4 C, 3 P) 1801 in South America (5 C, 2 P) 1802 in South America (6 C, 1 P)
1800 establishments in South America (1 C) C. 1800 in the Captaincy General of Chile (1 C, 2 P) V. 1800 in the Viceroyalty of Peru (1 C) 1800 in the Viceroyalty of ...
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 ...
The following is a list of indigenous peoples of South America. ... Valdivia culture, Ecuador, 3500–1800 BCE; Virú culture, Piura Region, Peru, 200 BCE–300 CE;
18th-century establishments in South America (18 C) 0–9. 18th-century Roman Catholic bishops in South America (9 C) 1700s in South America (8 C, 2 P)
Most of the surnames of the Brazilian population have a Portuguese origin, due to Portuguese colonization in the country (it is estimated that 80% of the Brazilian population has at least one Portuguese ancestor), while other South American countries were largely colonized by the Spanish.