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Merida Travel Guide

MERIDA

Merida is a charming cultural city in Mexico. The city of Merida is the choice of a tourist interested in culture in Mexico. Colonial style and local culture Merida is a city of about 1.5 million inhabitants in Mexico on

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History of United States

History Timeline of United States

History The colonies and liberation The entire North American continent was inhabited by Native Americans before the arrival of Europeans; see Native Americans(North America). European immigration began in the 1560s, when Spaniards settled in Florida. In the early 17th century,

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History of Trinidad and Tobago

Colonization The people of Trinidad were made up of several Arab guardians when Columbus’s third expedition arrived on the island in 1498. In 1532, Spain appointed a governor. Sugar plantations were created in which the Indian population was soon exterminated

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History of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

History In 1498 Columbus landed on the islands, which was named after St. Vincent’s Day (January 22). They were then inhabited by caribas, which prevented European colonization attempts in the 17th and 18th centuries. After 1783, the British began to

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History of Saint Lucia

History Timeline of Saint Lucia

When Kristoffer Columbus arrived on the island on Lucia Day in 1502, it was populated by Caribbean Indians. The British tried to colonize the island in the 17th century, but did not succeed because of strong resistance among the population.

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History of Saint Kitts and Nevis

Prehistory At the arrival of the Europeans, Saint Christopher and Nevis were inhabited by caribou, who had displaced the former Arab-speaking residents. History Before the arrival of the Europeans, the islands were populated by Caribbean Indians, who later became extinct.

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History of Panama

The South and Central America headland has a strategic location in terms of transit traffic, but is otherwise very isolated from events elsewhere in Latin America. Before the Spaniard Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the Pacific Ocean in 1513, Panama

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History of Nicaragua

History Timeline of Nicaragua

Prehistory Nicaragua, located on the southern border of ancient Mesoamerican high cultures, belongs to the so-called circum-Caribbean archaeological zone (compare Central America, Prehistory). Nicaragua was influenced by Mayan culture, but the strongest Mesoamerican influence did not come until a few

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History of Mexico

Prehistory A brief overview of Mexico’s cultural development before the arrival of the Spanish in 1519 is given. See also chichimeker, culhua, huasteker, mogul culture, taras and totonaker as well as Mesoamerican and Ancient American art and architecture. Findings of

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History of Jamaica

Jamaica was originally inhabited by the Taino people group. These were eradicated as a result of illness and ill treatment when Europeans, first from Spain, settled on the island from the 16th century. West African slaves were brought to the

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History of Honduras

History Timeline of Honduras

Prehistory Central America was populated by paleoindian hunters as early as 9000 BC Domestication in Central America of maize and other crops about 5000 BC led to a rapid increase in the population and establishment of agricultural villages; about 2000

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History of Haiti

History Timeline of Haiti

Haiti was before the Europeans’ arrival inhabited by around half a million taino – Arawak. These were used as slaves on sugar plantations and almost exterminated by the Spaniards over 50 years. From 1512 a large number of African slaves

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History of Guatemala

History Timeline of Guatemala

Prehistory The oldest traces of human activity in Guatemala, dating to about 9000 BC, are so-called clovis spearheads found at San Rafael outside Guatemala City and Los Tapiales in the highlands (compare clovis culture). The domestication of maize may have

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History of Grenada

History Timeline of Grenada

History The island was ruled by Caribbean Indians when it was discovered by Columbus in 1498. It was taken into European possession only in the 1650s through France. The years 1763–79 and 1783–1958, Grenada was a British colony and belonged

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History of Greenland

The world’s largest island Greenland is geographically part of North America but is politically part of the Kingdom of Denmark, although the Greenlanders have far-reaching self-government. Dependence on Denmark has diminished in recent years, but Danish financial contributions still represent

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History of El Salvador

History Timeline of El Salvador

El Salvador’s history as an independent state spans just under 200 years. In contrast, this has been an often conflict-filled and bloody story that culminated with brutal civil war in the 1980s. Before 1821 the area was part of a

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History of Dominican Republic

History Timeline of Dominican Republic

Prehistory The island of Hispaniola was populated about 4000 BC Cultivation of corn and cassava as well as ceramic production was introduced at the time around Kr.f. and is linked to an expansion of the Oranoco Delta people in today’s

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History of Dominica

History Timeline of Dominica

Before Kristoffer Columbus arrived in Dominica in 1493, the island was populated by the Arabian people and later by the Carib. After Dominica was proclaimed a Spanish colony, French pirates assumed dominion in the 17th century. During the 1700s, control

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History of Cuba

History Timeline of Cuba

Prehistory Cuba and the other major islands of the Antilles became the subject of settlement as early as 4000 BC. The coastal resources were used extensively for a long time, while cultivation and ceramic production were first invested from about

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History of Costa Rica

History Timeline of Costa Rica

Before the Spanish colonization, Costa Rica was sparsely populated. Kristoffer Columbus arrived on the coast on his last voyage in 1502, giving the country the name that alluded to the hope of great wealth (“the rich coast”). Nevertheless, the Spanish

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History of Canada

History Timeline of Canada

Today’s Canada was first populated by people who immigrated from Asia some 30,000 years ago. It was not until the 17th century that the French established the first European colonies in the area, and were long the site of rivalry

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History of Belize

Prehistory Archaeological finds in Belize attest to the presence of man there at least from 9000 BC Excavations have shown village communities along the coast with a maritime adaptation of about 4200. Between about 3300 and 2500 there was a

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History of Barbados

History Timeline of Barbados

Barbados is furthest east in the Caribbean and was not discovered by Europeans until 1518. The original inhabitants, the Arawak -indianerne, was quickly exterminated or deported. Barbados is excellent for growing sugar cane, and a successful British plantation economy has

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History of Bahamas

History Timeline of Bahamas

History Before the arrival of the Europeans, the Bahamas was inhabited by Arab-speaking Indians. When Columbus came to the Caribbean in 1492, he first reached one of the Bahamas. It was previously assumed that it was San Salvador (Watling’s Island),

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History of Antigua and Barbuda

Antigua was discovered by Columbus in 1493, but was a British support point from the early 16th century and came under British administration in the late 1600s. Since 1860 Antigua was administered as a colony with Barbuda. 1958–62, the area

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North America History

Pre-Columbian history America was probably originally a “deserted” continent. The first immigration (hunter-gatherer) from Asian Siberia via the then still mainland or icy Bering Strait was around 15,000 BC. (maybe earlier) detectable. There was also immigration across the Pacific Ocean,

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