Indigenous peoples of South America

The Amazon Rainforest, is located throughout ten different countries in South America, they include Brazil, Peru, Columbia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Giuana. This forest has many types of animal spices and plant species, which some of these species are endangered. In order to protect the rainforest, there are a wide number of management strategies that take place. These strategies are put into place so that the rainforest can be sustainably developed. The…

Brazil is the largest country of South America and the fifth largest of the world. Its total area is approximately 8,514,877 square kilometers which is 3,287,564 square miles. It is on the Eastern part of the continent and it borders the Atlantic Ocean with a coastline of 7,491 km. In addition, Brazil also borders all countries of South America except for Chile and Ecuador. The topography consists of a flat surface with gently sloping lowland, and some mountains and rounded hills as well. Some…

South America is home to many indigenous civilizations. Among on of these is the Kogi Indians. Ancestor of the Kogi Indians is the Tairona. They were under the threat of the Inca Empire, calling for help from Spanish Conquistadores. Benefiting from their help, they still decimated in numbers due to illness. Regardless, out of it came the Sierra Nevada Tribes, with the Kogi Indians included. The Kogi Indians are a preColombian civilization. Direct relatives of the ancient Tairona, they have…

siltation of Panama Canal, and air pollution in urban areas affects the extraction of natural resources. Another was the environmental cost of building the Panama Canal. In addition to the economic and human cost where thousands of workers died and many people were displaced from their land. This environmental result was negative. Furthermore, many animal species and plants were extinct and an unknown volume of biomass was lost as a result of rainforest destruction. Also, the use of water is the…

These are big stone shapes that look like people. These moai were made out of volcanic rock. There are many of these sculptures around. They may be found in rows, toppled over, or broken. People have found out some of the history to why this settlement feel apart, but we really don't know how or why the moai were made. The residence of this Island live in the town…

northern coast of South America. Venezuela is bordered by the following three countries and a sea: to the east Guyana, to the west Colombia, to the south Brazil and to the north the Atlantic Ocean. The longest border is with Colombia than Brazil. The topography of Venezuela is a very mountainous can be broken down into four geographical divisions. These divisions are the Andes’ chain to the north, Lake Maracaibo to the west, great plains and forests in the southeast and in the south is the…

As Europeans began to take over America the tools that they had developed over years, with the help of established trade networks, would be used to enslave people as they looked for further wealth in the “New World.” Tools such as their weapons like the musket, which was developed through experimentation with gunpowder. Gunpowder brought to the Europeans…

Federative Republic of Brazil or simply Brazil is one of the world’s largest countries, in land mass and with a population of about 205,053,000 people. (Britannica) Brazil’s capital used to be Rio de Janeiro, but was switched to Brasilia in April of 1960, because of the size and wealth of the city. Brazil or as the Portuguese spell it Brasil, runs on a democratic system, and currently has a female President in office. It has in the past been a predominately male-oriented society, which has…

Latin American colonies during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were a hotbed of resentment and discontent among the lower castes of society. Indigenous and slave populations were brutalized and exploited in order to fill the coffers of aristocratic elites and foreign monarchies. Somewhere in the middle, a growing population of mixed-race ethnic groups found themselves ostracized and struggling to find their niche in life. News of foreign events and new philosophies and ideologies…

Brazil brief description: Brazil, the largest country in South America was found on September 7th, 1822. Before 1822, Brazil was ruled by the Portuguese Empire from the 1500s. Pedro Cabral was the lucky man to claim the title as the discoverer of Brazil. At the arrival of the Portuguese, they discovered that there were around 7 million tribal native Indians living there. The Portuguese observed a highly developed tribal culture, but also tribal warfare which even included cannibalism to a…