Colonization In Panama

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Panama's landscape has changed a lot through out time before the spanish and other colonists colonized panama it consisted of a mixture of forests and mountains ,beaches and wetlands, plains and pastures.Panama has always been humid because of the fact that it is close to the sea and according to newworldencyclopedia.org The highest point in the country has always been the Volcán Barú.This volcanohas been inactive for millennia nobody knows why this volano has been inactive for so long but they are clad that it hasent irrupted.Panama had Nearly 500 rivers Mostly unnavigable wich means the natives that lived there were not able to us their boats or fish in them do to the fact that the current was too strong but many just Started as swift …show more content…
The two tribes interacted peacefully with each other and used one another to trade such things like food ,Animals and other types of materials to survive.Their daily lives consisted of the men fishing and the women picking fruits and vegetables.
There isn't any physical evidence of there ever being a great civilization in panama we know that the two tribes were civilized enough to know how to use each other for their own benefit.Both tribes were in control of the land they shared it and interacted peacefully with each other.Nobody was ever really in control of panama the Cuevas and the Coclé tribes both shared panama until the spanish came and took it from them.
Panama has been imperialised 3 times but if we talk about the very first country that colonized them that would be spain.According to historyworld.net spain first set eyes on panama in 1510 and then balboa set off on a journey in 1513 which brought him to the pacific.His discovery of this sea expanded spains ambitions to conquer the whole pasific coast. After that Panama immediately became an important part of the already large but growing Spanish

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