Latin America

contributors to the culture and development of Latin America. The Spanish were the first Europeans to set foot in central and South America. Christopher Columbus was the first European to arrive in the Americas in 1492. This sailor was funded by the Spanish king and queen. He landed in the Bahamas, a small group of islands in the Caribbean and claimed the land for Spain. Hernán Cortés, also from Spain, landed on the coast of Mexico in South America in 1519. Shortly afterwards, the Spanish…

Since the discovery of Latin America by Columbus in 1492, the continent was colonized, conquered and torn apart for its resources. The native people were killed by the thousands, treated like animals and used for labor. The turn of the nineteenth century saw a wave of enlightenment thinkers throughout Europe and reaching the Americas, that disagreed with these tactics and pushed for sovereign states, which led to much of Latin America rebelling and escaping colonial rule. This paper will argue…

combination of indigenous traditions and customs and Catholic influence in Latin America. The Latin American festivals and celebrations especially are closely tied to religious practices of the Catholic Church so most of them take place on days according to the liturgical seasons in Catholic Christianity. In Latin America, Christian holiday celebrations include indigenous elements unlike the ones in Western Europe because in Latin America, there was a fusion of the Catholic beliefs and the…

watching this Ted Talk, I thought that my story of Africa and Latin America was the only story. I quickly learned how incorrect I was about this. As I was first questioned about Africa and Latin America, I wrote words such as “poverty, uneducated and hungry”. Before learning about the nations, I only was taught one story; the story of sadness or poorness. It was not that I was purposely disregarding other information about Africa and Latin America; the sad stories are just the only thing that…

The Americas – Period 2 consist of North America and Latin America 600-600 CE. Many changes happened whether they were political, economic, or social. Changes over time for North America included trade expansion, tribal government, and agriculture. For South America changes were in the pyramids, Mayan astronomy, and village organization. North America's change in trade expansion and continuity in village life, nomadism, polytheism, and shamanism. Latin America's change in Pyramids, ceremonial…

Christopher Columbus made wrong calculations, he and his men landed in a New World that would bring them great fortunes. Unfortunately, for the Natives living in the America’s the Europeans arrival would be the beginning of a terrible nightmare. In Latin Colonial America by Kevin Terraciano, there are letters and documents that give the various perspectives of people living during the initial conquest period. Native languages have been translated to English by Mattew Restall, Lisa Sousa and…

During the late 19th century, much of the pre-conquest past incorporated elite concepts such as artifacts of national heritage across Spanish America. Many elites stressed the importance of not disconnecting the pre-conquest past with contemporary indigenous people, but trying to connect one and another (Earle). In believing this concept, it is important to have some sort of connection to the past with artifacts that are visible rather than melted for gold or silver as they did back then. I…

Latin America is an area on the map that is denoted as the countries that speak Spanish and Portuguese within the Americas. This area encloses 20 states starting from the border of North America to the end of South America. This region was first known as the home of a group of people who had one of the most advanced civilizations, the Aztecs, Incas and Mayans. This was before the arrival of the Europeans during the end of the 15th and peak of the 16th centuries. There were many vital events…

the challenges that social entrepreneurs face in emerging economies of Latin America. The entrepreneurial landscape in this region entails difficulties in terms of institutional voids, which is why it is interesting to comprehend how these actors in the economy deal with social, economic and environmental tensions. 1.4 Conceptual Perspective To better understand the challenges that social entrepreneurs face in Latin America, Bourdieu’s (1986) theory related to career capitals will be used as…

Identity Paper January 18, 2017 Communal Identity My country El Salvador has a similar culture as the other counties in Latin America, and more specifically to other countries in Central America. Mestizo culture dominates the country, influenced by culture clash of ancient Mesoamerican and medieval Iberian Peninsula. In El Salvador, the official language is Central America Spanish. Less than one percent of the population speaks the Pipil language, in places such as Izalco and several other…