Regions of Peru

as the lesser-developed regions of the world (Perlman, 2009, p. 41). Thus, as the world population skyrockets, we are seeing a surge of population in poor areas. These poor areas have the least amount of education, little to no access to health care and have the hardest time finding a job to support their children. Latin America is considered to be part of the Global South and thus will experience a rise in their population. Latin America is the most highly urbanized region in the global…

The Jivaro people also known as the Shuar people are one of the indigenous people that habitat parts of eastern Ecuador, and northern Peru. They live in small, spread out villages of approximately 22,000 square miles throughout the Amazon forest and foothills of the Andes mountains. The Jivaro people consist of different smaller groups of people such as Achuar, Humabisa, Aguaruan, Antipas, Mayna. The people can also speak over six languages: Jivoran, Quechua, Shiwar, Achuar, Awajun, and Huambisa…

The regions that they all reside in are high population centers due to their natural fertility relative to their surroundings such as the fertile crescent region of the Middle East in which the Sumerians were found. The transition from hunter-gatherer to agrarian societies is what allowed people to have the time to innovate as well…

supply of Indian labor created by the European thirst for wealth. For example, Natives working in a Hispaniola gold mine were labored so harshly that the population drastically plundered from 1 million to 250 within fifty years of Columbus’ arrival. In Peru, the mita system, established in Potosi, required Natives to mine silver in poor environments which resulted in various respiratory diseases like pneumonia and tuberculosis. In response to Las Casas’ motivating account, the Spanish King…

components that allowed cities to start to form: agricultural surplus, and a leadership class emerged. This happened all across the world but had five main hearths. Mesopotamia, the Indus River Valley, the Huang He, and Mesoamerica are these hearths. Peru is listed as the sixth hearth but their founding was recent compared to the others. Greek and Roman cities followed these hearths of…

their husband turned to the religious life and joined a convent, bringing with them their possessions. Many of these convents where very large buildings that some would even resemble a small town, such as the Convent of Santa Catalina in Arequipa, Peru. Although individual nuns swore the vow of poverty, nothing actually prevented the convents themselves from acquiring property. Many nuns actually lived in relative luxury. High positions of nunneries meant that they had considerable power within…

History will always be known to repeat itself. There will always be empires rising and falling now and way into the future. There will always be something for these empires to fight for which will lead to a winner and a loser. Only the strong empires will survive the longest, only to lead to a historic downfall. These empires will conquer land and destroy families and religions. Some will be able to rebuild, but this will take many decades to do so. The Arab philosopher Ibn Khaldun, says that…

Mario Vargas Llosa has been writing on politics since the early 1960s. Early in his career, Llosa believed that true socialism might be a possibility in Latin America, but gradually, he came to the conclusion that the Cuban model would not guarantee intellectual freedom. He was attracted towards Jean Paul Sartre’s ideas of commitment. When he leaned away from leftist ideology, Albert Camus became his ethical model. Camus has rejected totalitarianism as a social system where human beings become…

cartographer Amerigo Vespucci. During the 1530s Hernando de Soto accomplished noteworthy tasks such as the domination of Peru for the Spanish, and the discovery of the Mississippi River. De Soto initially left for North America because he heard of voyages that other explorers of his time pursued. He heard of men discovering Florida and was intrigued by the resources that the south eastern region of North America obtained. De Soto made it to Florida, traveled north to Georgia, then to Alabama…

Usually all earthquakes happen the same, but the way an earthquake actually occurs is such a spectacular process that everyone should get to know. They are created by many active fault zones within the Earth (Fronabarger). Most earthquakes are made along faults, tectonic plate boundary zones, or even along mid-oceanic ridges (Pidwirny). Small earthquakes can be caused by volcanic activity, landslides, mine blasts, and nuclear experiments (Science Daily). Sun and moon cause tremors by creating…