Encyclopedia - History Of The Americas: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Americas - Migration Into The Continents
Exactly when the first group of people migrated into the America's is subject to much debate. Recent archaeological finds suggest multipl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - South America: Encyclopedia Ii - South America - History
South America is thought to have been first inhabited by people crossing the Bering Land Bridge, now the Bering strait, though there are ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of South America: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of South America - Pre-columbian Era
South America is thought to have been first inhabited by people crossing the Bering Land Bridge, now the Bering strait, though there are ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Central America: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Central America - Independence
In 1821 a congress of Central American Creoles declared their independence from Spain, effective on 15 September of that year. That date ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The World: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The World - Hunter-gatherers
The earliest available evidence places the origin of modern Homo sapiens in Africa about 200,000 years ago during the Palaeolithic period...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - South America: Encyclopedia Ii - South America - History
South America is thought to have been first inhabited by people crossing the Bering Land Bridge, now the Bering strait, though there are ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Saint Lucia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Saint Lucia - European Invasion
Europeans first landed on the island in either 1492 or 1502 during Spain's early exploration of the Caribbean. The Dutch, English, and Fr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - South America: Encyclopedia Ii - South America - Economy
As of 2002, South America's unemployment rate was 10.8 percent. Due to histories of high inflation in nearly all South American countries...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - South America: Encyclopedia Ii - South America - People
Ethnic groups of South America include: Awá Banawa Caiapos Enxet European descendants, especially from Spain, Portugal and Italy. Ge Gu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - South America: Encyclopedia Ii - South America - Culture
Roman Catholicism is the dominant religion. French Guiana also has a large number of Protestants. Guyana and Suriname are exceptions, wit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Central America: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Central America - Spanish Colonial Era
After the Spanish conquest in the 16th century, most of the inhabitants of Central America shared a common history. The exceptions were t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Saint Lucia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Saint Lucia - Pre-european People
Saint Lucia's first known inhabitants were Arawaks, believed to have come from northern South America around 200-400 A.D. Numerous archae...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Central America: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Central America - 20th Century
Despite the failure of a lasting political union, the sense of shared history and the hope for eventual reunification persist in the nati...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - South America: Encyclopedia Ii - South America - Economy
As of 2002, South America's unemployment rate was 10.8 %. Due to histories of high inflation in nearly all South American countries, inte...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - South America: Encyclopedia Ii - South America - Geography
Geographically, South America is generally considered a continent forming the southern portion of the American landmass, south and east o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of South America: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of South America - Notes
Falkland Islands · French Guiana · South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands ... See also:History of South America, History of So...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The World: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The World - Agriculture
A major change, described by the great prehistorian Vere Gordon Childe as a "revolution," occurred around the 9th millennium BCE with the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of South America: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of South America - Recent History
The continent, like many others, became a battlefield of the Cold War in the late 20th century. The government of Chile was overthrown in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of South America: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of South America - Independence
The Spanish colonies won their independence in the first quarter of the 19th century, in the South American Wars of Independence. Simon B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of South America: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of South America - European Colonization
Before the arrival of Europeans, an estimated 30 million people lived in South America. In 1494, Portugal and Spain, the two great mariti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - South America: Encyclopedia Ii - South America - Geography
The classification of its geographic location is subject to dispute, as in some non-English speaking regions of the world, the Americas a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The World: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The World - State
Agriculture led to several major changes. It allowed far larger population densities, which organized themselves into states. There are s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The World: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The World - City And Trade
Agriculture also created, and allowed for the storage of, food surpluses that could support people not directly involved in food producti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The World: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The World - Age Of Discovery
In the fourteenth century the Renaissance began in Europe. Some modern scholars have questioned whether this flowering of art and humanis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The World: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The World - Twentieth Century
The twentieth century saw the domination of the world by Europe wane, at least partly from the internal destruction of World War II, and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The World: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The World - Rise Of Europe
The second half of the second millennium was dominated by the expansion of European power around the world. Why Europe, which had been a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The World: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The World - Age Of Kingdoms
Throughout the temperate zones of Eurasia, America, and North Africa, large empires continued to rise and fall. The gradual breakup of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The World: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The World - Bronze And Iron Ages
Agricultural settlements had until this time been almost completely dependent on stone tools. In Eurasia, copper and bronze tools, decora...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The World: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The World - The Classical Empires
By the last centuries BCE the Mediterranean, the Ganges and the Yellow River became the seats of empires which future rulers would strive...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Articles About Mormonism: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Articles About Mormonism - Category:mormonism In General As A Religion
Church of Christ (Mormonism), Latter-day Saint, Latter Day Saint, Latter Day Saint movement, Mormon, Mormonism, Mormonism and Christianit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Caribbean: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Caribbean - The Caribbean Before European Contact
The oldest evidence of humans in the Caribbean is in southern Trinidad at Banwari Trace where 7000-year-old remains have been found. Thes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Caribbean: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Caribbean - American Influence
During the American Civil War the Bahamas was a centre of trade between the British and the Confederate south, trading cotton for weapons...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Caribbean: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Caribbean - The Colonial Era
History of the Caribbean - Spanish conquest. See also: Spanish colonization of the Americas During the first voyage of the explorer C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Articles About Mormonism: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Articles About Mormonism - Category:latter Day Saint History
1890 Manifesto, Amboy Conference, Authoritarianism and Mormonism, Beehive, Blacks and Mormonism, Burned-over district, Cart, Council of F...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Articles About Mormonism: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Articles About Mormonism - Category:latter Day Saints
List of articles about Mormonism - Category:Notable people in Latter Day Saint history. A - M: Leonard J. Arrington, Lilburn Boggs, Gu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Articles About Mormonism: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Articles About Mormonism - Category:latter Day Saint Texts
Apocrypha, Articles of Faith, Articles of the Church of Christ, Book of Abraham, Book of Commandments, Book of Mormon, Book of Moses, Doc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Caribbean: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Caribbean - Independence
Haiti, the former French colony of Saint-Domingue on Hispaniola was the first Caribbean nation to gain independence from European powers ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Articles About Mormonism: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Articles About Mormonism - Category:latter Day Saint Doctrines Beliefs And Practices
Adamic language, pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact, Angel, LDS Apostates, Authority_and_the_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Americas: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Americas - European Discovery And Following Colonization
Thousands of years after the Indians arrived, the continent was rediscovered by Europeans. Initially the Vikings established a short-live...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Americas: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Americas - South America
See major article: History of South America The Chavín established a trade network and developed agriculture by as early as (or late co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Americas: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Americas - Civilizations
Civilizations were started long after migration. Several large, centralized civilizations developed in the Western Hemisphere (e.g., the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Americas: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Americas - North America
See major article: History of North America Living conditions were that of large stone apartment like adobe structures. They live in Ari...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Americas: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Americas - Mesoamerica
See major articles: History of Central America and History of the Caribbean The Zapotec emerged around 1500 years BC. Their writing syst...   » Read the article