Regional Outline for



Regional Outline for Latin America

| |8000 – 600 CE |600 – 1450 CE |1450-1750 CE |1750 – 1914 CE |1914 - Present |

|Politics |The leaders are related to divinity (priests) |Arrival of Cortes (1518) |Colonization |Decolonization |

| |Hierarchal system |Annihilates existing political system |Implement own government (Europeans |Majority rules |

| | |Codified laws |immigrate) |Series of juntas/dictatorships |

| | | |Religion (Catholic) plays a strong influence | |

| | | |in gov’t | |

|Economy |Little trade |Cortes – trading |improved technology |Europe cannot maintain |

| |Internally based |Encomiendas |dependent |Monoculture |

| |Mostly agriculture |Haciendas |Europe sucks natural resources/profits |Difficulty industrializing |

| |Large marketplaces |Trade of crops |monoculture |Heavily dependent on natural resources |

| | |Brought beasts of burden ( improved agriculture| |(Venezuela) |

|Social Class/Gender |priests rules |more hierarchal (by race) |Continued hierarchy |Society opens up |

| |hierarchal |depreciation of women (European influence) |New castes created (creoles, mestizos ) |More egalitarian |

| |patriarchal (though women appreciated) | | |Some meritocracy |

| | | | |Existing racism |

|Science/Inventions |Calendar |medical advances (longer life span) |primitive anesthesia |innovation continued |

| |No wheels |Wheel brought in (levers, pulleys) |tools for probing, incision, organ extraction|beginning industrialization |

| |Road system |Brought in writing system (for Incan empire) |blood letting |extracting natural resources |

| |Chinampas | |transfer of European inventions/influenced |science/inventions gotten through trade |

|Art/Architecture |Ziggurats |Western/religion (Christian based) art |- Combination of European, indigenous, and |

| |Religion-based |Mix of original Spanish and Western art |Christian arts. |

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|Empire |Aztecs |decimated (guns, germs, steel) |Spanish/Portuguese empire |split into many countries |

| |Incas |Iberian rule |Treaty of Tordesillas (1949) |General Boliva: legacy of anti American, |

| |Mayans | |Portuguese King moves to Brazil |influenced many countries |

| |Toltecs, etc. | |Some French influence |No strong institutions due to dependency |

|Religion |Animism |West considered Gods |Christianity heavily encouraged |Atheism agnostics increased |

| |Polytheism |Lose belief in previous Gods | |Legacy of Catholicism |

| |Worship of nature, etc. |West brought Christianity | |Society more free to choose religion |

| | |Influenced (little syncretism: superstitions | | |

| | |created) | | |

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