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Classic Period in Maya History
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Indegeous people started to lived in Latin America.
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Aztecs arrived in central mexican valley
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Christopher Columbus lands in the Americas.
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The Spanish colonists of begin importing African slaves
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city of Panama founded
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Spanish forces led by Hernando Cortés arrive and conquer Mexico
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Hernan Cortez, with a force of 600 Spaniards and 5000 Tlaxcalan auxiliaries, conquered the Aztec Empire
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Cortez defeats the Aztecs and conquers their capital Tenochtitlan
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In 1531, with permission from the Spanish king, Francisco Pizarro eliminated the Incan rule in western South America.
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A smallpox epidemics in Mexico kills more than a million people
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Haiti was the first Latin American country to gain independence from France.
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Under the leadership of a new generation of leaders, such as Simon Bolivar of Venezuela, Jose de San Martin of Argentina, and other Libertadores in South America, the independence movement regained strength.
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Brazil achieved independence with a constitutional monarchy established in 1822. In the same year in Mexico, a military officer, Agustin de Iturbide, led a coalition of conservatives and liberals who created a constitutional monarchy.
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This First Mexican Empire was short-lived, and was followed by the creation of a republic.
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All Spanish American Countries except for Puerto Rico and Cuba, had gained independence from Spain.
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Costa Rica introduced free schooling
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The Mexican Revolution begins when citizens rise up against oppressive rulers. A new constitution is adopted in 1917.
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The Cold War moved close to the United States, in Latin America. Countries in Latin America faced many critical problems, including widespread poverty and poor health care
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Beginning in the 1980s and by the early 1990s, all countries had restored their democracies.
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US handed over Panama Canal Zone to Panama
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El Salvador : Archbishop Oscar Romero assassinated in his Cathedral
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Post-Classic Period in Maya History
