Cultural Differences In Middle And South America

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Today, Middle and South America are the holders of architectural and technological legacies of ancient indigenous civilizations as the first explorer Von Humboldt indicates what connections exist between realm's area, human culture and natural diversity that make those societies in the coastal valleys. These societies for thousands of years when the European invaders came to the border get the name Amerindians that call nowadays. Europeans from Spain, France, Germany, and Great Britain landed in Middle and South America and gradually emerged from the coast to inside the plased and indigenous peoples in seldom in the origin country where they coming from. The European countries masters struggled with one another for supremacy, but specially …show more content…
The Amerindians were forced to learn the Spanish language and for many years under the Spain colonies they practice that language. The Latin language named these countries and all continent Latin America. Today this language is an official language and is used in all countries that make a couses of the consequences of the European in Middle and South America. Another point to cultural, social region is Religion. When the Portuguese and the Spanish conquered Latin America, they made the natural inhabitants change over to Roman Catholicism. They prohibited the practice of their native religions which is not exist any more, but some people were unable to revolt because of their lower class status and they would hide their religion which allowed their religion to still be practice today. However, the Latin Americas countries interaction in their civilization in different ways, including language or religion and every country have recognized the advantages of this relation with European …show more content…
This was epidemics of smallpox, typhus, influenza, diphtheria and measles that swept the American subsequent to European contact and they were killed million and million people up to 95% of the indigenous population of the Amerindians. This disaster came as a bringing from European a large domesticated animals such as cows, pigs, sheep, goats and horses that contained those kind of diseases. Human mortality in that areas create a lot of problems because Native Americans had no immunity and died people were in the large amount. Those kind of diseases today look like are minimized, but still again around the countries with not high structure of health protectors. Today countries in Latin America are focused on key issues for health policy- making very serious that problem to prevent and contribute to the evaluation of national health care policies as a social

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