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Latin America
Q&A about historical background on political order in Latin America
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Discovery of America (1492) | Christopher Columbus was sponsored by the King and Quin of Spain with 3 ships (Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria) to find the way to Inda, but instead discovered America |
| Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) | was an Italian explorer and navigator. Between 1492 and 1504, he made a total of four voyages to the Caribbean and South America and has been credited for opening up the Americas to European colonization. |
| Papal Settlement (1493) | Portugaise colonization of Brazil. |
| Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) | An agreement between Portugal and Spain which declared that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal. |
| Pedro Alvares Cabral (1467-1520) Brasil | Had a task of a religeou service to spread Catholicism wherever he went, which was what he did when he sailed to Brazil (1500) and established a Portuguese colony there |
| Hernan Cortes (1485-1547) Mexico | Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain. Created a Viceroyalty in New Spain (Mexico) in 1535 |
| Francisco Pizarro (1474-1541) Peru | Was a Spanish conquistador whose famed conquest of the Inca Empire in the 1530s made him and his men fantastically wealthy and won for Spain a rich New World colony and who created Viceroyalty in Peru in 1521 |
| Spanish colonies had problems with metropole... | The loss of confidence Spanish metropole because of: 1. Triumph of French Revolution (from ancien regime to republicanism) 2. Napoleonic Wars 3. Spanish colonialism suffered from ethnic inequality 4. The US example |
| Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) | fought for independence in Columbia, Venezuela, Panama and Ecuador |
| Jose de San Martin | South American general and statesman, born in Argentina: leader in winning independence for Argentina, Peru, and Chile; protector of Peru |
| Agustin de Iturbide (1783-1824) | granted independence to Mexico |
| Caudillismo | Regional control of a local military strongman known as a caudillo. A common form of leadership during the Latin American Revolutionary period. |
| Monroe Doctrine (1823) | US foreign policy regarding Latin American countries stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention. |
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