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    journey from Spain to South America. The poem was written in a third person’s point of view, we know this because it speaks of the journey as if they were not there when it was occurring. The purpose of this poem is to teach young children about Columbus’s Journey. This poem was written in 1948 in which there was only one idea about Columbus, that being that he discovered and founded America. We today know that this is wrong, Columbus was not the person who discovered America because there were already

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    Did you know that Peru is located in South America? Peru is located in the Western part of South America. Ecuador is North of Peru and Bolivia is South of Peru. There are many famous landmarks and rivers in Peru. Also their state capital is Lima. Lima is by the minerals and where they fish are. They’re religions are the Romans to be catholic, and evangelic. There’s the Amazon rain forest , Lake Titicaca, La Rinconada, Amazon river, and Andes Mountains. They have three energy sources, five fishing

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    It is said that the more close the countries, the more similar they are. Examples of this could be Venezuela and Colombia and also The United States of America and Canada. Although North Korea and South Korea share a same piece of land, they have many differences. The most notable differences between North Korea and South Korea are in the political, tourist and economic aspect. Firstly, the political aspect of North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is based on a

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    For millennia, North and South America lived isolated from the rest of the world, self-contained continents populated by many different native tribes, but without having contacted any nations east of the Atlantic. Through this separation, vastly different cultures were able to develop on the two sides of the ocean. The worlds of Europe and the lands that would one day become the Americas finally collided in 1492, when an explorer called Christopher Columbus tried to sail west to reach Asia and reached

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    Racism in America and the Deep South The deep south: Georgia; Louisiana; Alabama; Mississippi and South Carolina is a place foreign to many in the Western World. Although, being within the same country, it is clear that the ‘land of cowboys’ couldn’t be more different than the beaches of California and the skyscrapers of New York. However, it is easily one of the places in which property and land can be bought cheapest. This can be traced back hundreds of years to when the slave market was first

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    The Inca empire originated from Cuzco, their capital, and later expanded to western South America. It can be argued that the Inca empire expanded in region due to war. The Inca army was very powerful and instead of engaging in conflict with them, many groups decided to peacefully join the Incas. In this way, the Inca expanded throughout South America while at the same time cultivating diversity as it encapsulating different groups of indigenous into one.The typical form of community in the Inca was

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    Central America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America make up Latin America. Approximately 640 million people reside in this region. Latin America is the largest foreign supplier of oil to the United States. It is the United States’ fastest growing trading partner, as well as its biggest supplier of illegal drugs. Latin America is also the largest source of U.S immigrants, both documented and not. The life expectancy for females is 72 years of age and the life expectancy for males is 79 years

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    THE NATIVE AMERICANS/ AMERICAN INDIAN Many years before the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus in Bahamas, there were people of different group who discovered America. There were more than 5,000,000,000 people, before 15th century, living in America. Native Americans or the American Indians are the South and North, pre-Columbian American inhabitants living within the present day United States boundary. These were people with different distinct tribe, ethnic groups and bands. Many of these

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    Central and South America have many similarities and differences. Their governments, technology, environments, and culture compare and contrast in so many ways. Costa Rica, Guatemala, Argentina, Honduras, Chile, Venezuela, and Brazil are just a few of the places in Central and South America, but there was still so much to learn. Guatemala, located in Central America, has a literacy rate of 74 percent over the ages of 15 according to reading village.org. This means that 26 percent of the countries

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    The European exploration and colonization had a strong impact on North and South America. It also had a pretty big impact on Europe too. Both were introduced to new food, animals, and other items. The people of North and South America gained knowledge and were taught about a new religion. Europe also grew gaining more money, land, and people. So this interaction became beneficial for both and for humanity as a whole. The European exploration and colonization introduced many new things to both sides

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