Month: August 2025

Ancient Peru was the seat of several prominent Andean civilizations, most notably that of the Incas whose empire was captured ...

Several Indigenous groups, principally belonging to the Guarani language family, inhabited the area of modern Paraguay before the arrival of ...

Originally a Dutch colony in the 17th century, by 1815 Guyana had become a British possession. The abolition of slavery ...

Although first sighted by an English navigator in 1592, the first landing (English) did not occur until almost a century ...

What is now Ecuador formed part of the northern Inca Empire until the Spanish conquest in 1533. Quito -- the ...

Colombia was one of three countries that emerged after the dissolution of Gran Colombia in 1830 -- the others are ...

Indigenous groups inhabited central and southern Chile for several thousand years, living in mixed pastoralist and settled communities. The Inca ...

After more than three centuries under Portuguese rule, Brazil gained its independence in 1822, maintaining a monarchical system of government ...

Bolivia, named after independence fighter Simón BOLÍVAR, broke away from Spanish rule in 1825. Much of its subsequent history has ...

In 1816, the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata declared their independence from Spain. After Bolivia, Paraguay, and ...

Thirteen of Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of ...