South America

Many South Africans live in “shacks” or informal dwellings that are supposed to be temporary, at least until the government build new residential units. In 1996, there were 1.4 million units. In 2011, this number grew to 1.9 million, representing 13 percent of all South African households (Wilkinson). What accounted for this housing backlog is the challenge of “decreases in national housing expenditure and inadequate funding”, as stated in the Housing Delivery in South Africa Report by…

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…

discovered North and South America also known as “Americas”? Several thousands of years before Christopher Columbus’ ships landed in the Bahamas, a different group of people discovered America. The nomadic ancestors of modern Native Americans who hiked over a “land bridge” from Asia to what is now Alaska more than 12,000 years ago. In fact, by the time European adventurers arrived in the 15th century A.D., scholars estimate that more than 50 million people were already living in the Americas.…

a ball not flat. When people read the map, then they can learn the history of the “Age of Discovery” in the 16th cemetery. Maps may be very different at the different time. Just like the video said, the reason why Christopher Columbus arrived South America but not Asian countries is because of the map. He wanted to cross the Pacific Ocean and reach Asia, but the information at that time was not clear at all.…

Do you remember what happened to indigenous people when Europeans arrived in South America in the XIV century with the desire to explore this land? They spoil the indigenous population not only with slave work and forest exploration, but spreading infections diseases among these people who had never contacted many kinds of pathogens. Hill and Hurtado (1996) has found that “first face-to-face contacts result in the death of between one third and half of the native population within the first five…

HISTORY’S WORTH OF EVIDENCE WRONG, FIND PREHISTORIC CREATURES IN SOUTH AMERICA!!! Ed Malone, Reporter for Daily Gazette Our band of 12 men seem to have found a completely different subcategory of animals, some similar and some different from the fossils we’ve uncovered before. The self-proclaimed leader of our pack, Professor George E. Challenger, had been the one that started the whole idea, as he went to South America before. Accompanied by Ed Malone (myself), Lord John Roxton,…

Exploration brought upon many changes to the new world. Some for the better, some for the worse, and today I will be telling you about how the Spanish affected the South Americans. After 1492, which is when Christopher Columbus sailed the Atlantic Ocean and landed in America, the Spanish would start to colonize different parts of the Americas. They would do many different things to the natives for two main reasons: religion and money. They, in the long term, would achieve both of these goals.…

The Western World, North and South America Columbus’s discovery launched an Age of Exploration, where every European power wanted a piece of the New World. Shorty after Christopher Columbus’s voyage to the Western Hemisphere, in 1492, many Europeans also started the strenuous expedition. One of which was Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian who constituted an entirely separate journey to this second super continent, came to be named "Americas", deriving its name from Americus, the Latin version of…

 First Americans came from Asia about 30,000 years ago. These people became the American Indian population of North, Central and South America. American Indian groups were divided into tribes, and sub divided inti clans. They adopted a simple culture and no writing systems were created except for pictographs.  The exception was the Mayan Culture of South America. It flourished for about 900 years excelling in mathematics and astronomy. They developed a calendar and a sophisticated written…

Introduction South america and USA are alike in many ways, one of their differences is the slavery. In south america their segregation is way worse than the USA’s. There were so much racist people. The police and firemen were on the racist people side.They were shooting Them with guns and water.They were locking them up and most of the time they were not even doing anything. Why did the whites want to take over the blacks? They were very racist.They did it because they felt like…