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The Aztecs discover , and create Tenochtitlan. the Spaniards were deeply impressed by the beauty, order and cleanliness of this city with between 150,000 and 300,000 inhabitants, one of the biggest metropolises in the world at the time.
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The final stage of the Templo Mayor was completed and
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The two European powers reached an agreement to divide South America. In the resulting Treaty of Tordesillas. Portugal gained control over the land that became present-day Brazil. In this section, you will look at Portuguese-speaking Brazil, the largest country in South America.
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Moctezuma II becomes tlatoani or Mexican Emperor.
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Montezuma becomes Aztec emperor. Was the ninth tlatoani or ruler of Tenochtitlan, reigning from 1502 to 1520. During his reign the Aztec Empire reached its maximal size.
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Hernando Cortez landed on the coast of Mexico. Cortez and his men marched into the interior of the country until the reached the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, the site of present day Mexico City. and by 1521 Cortez and his army had conqured the Aztecs.
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Francisco Pizarro invades and conquers the Inca empire in Peru.
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Santiago, Chile, is destroyed by an earthquake.
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Two massive Aztec scupltures were dug up in Mexico City . Aztec stone sculpture is the culmination of a long Mesoamerican tradition in the carving of stone—from ordinary volcanic rock to highly prized semi-precious stones such as jade into objects and monuments of all sorts.
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Haiti was a french colony w. an inportant sugar industry. Africans brought the island to by force worked on the sugar plantations & other plantations. These years, Toussaint L'Ouverture led a slave rebellion in Haiti and took over the government of the island.
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Between 1810 and 1825, most of Spain's former colonies had declared and won independence and had divided up into republics. Mexico also achieved independence from spain under Agustin de' Iturbide, who proclaimed himself as emperior in 1822.
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After Napoleon’s defeat in 1815, many people in Brazil demanded independence from Portugal. However, the Portuguese government wanted Brazil to remain a colony. But the Brazilians kept pushing for independence. Finally, thousands of them signed petitions asking Dom Pedro, the son of Portugal’s king, to rule Brazil as an independent country. He agreed, and in September of 1822, he declared
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Peace treaty fixes frontier between argentina & chile along the ridge of the andes.
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It cuts through the land bridge and connects to the Atlanta , and Pacific oceans. Ships from both hemispheres use the canal, making Panama a crossroads of world trade. The canal made possible the exchange of both goods and ideas.
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Population reaches 542,000
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During this year a new political pary arouse. This party helped introduce democracy and political stability for much of the 20th century. It continued the party of redistributing land to the peasants.
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an economic common market that
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Education is very important in Chile. When they
are between the ages of 6 and 13, all children must
attend school, and public education is free. Higher
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Early in the last quarter of the 20th century, South American
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Argentina wins FIFA Cup in Estadio Azteca
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