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Best known for their art, architecture, astronomy and calendar
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The earliest known Mesoamerican civilization
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Feudalism let people get their food by farming
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Formed by an alliance of three different peoples
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Wealthy and sophisticated empire in South America
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Hernan Cortes formed alliances to defeat the much larger Aztec Empire
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The Inca were weakened by civil war and disease when Pizarro attacked
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Pizarro traps and captures Inca Emperor Atahualpa
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Writes that the king has absolute power to rule over people in exchange for peace and security
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States that all men are created equal by God
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The American colonists declared independence from the British and created a new country
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The French wrote this document for human civil rights, which led to the French Revolution
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Haitian independence proclaimed Two months after his defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte’s colonial forces, Jean-Jacques Dessalines proclaims the independence of Saint-Domingue, renaming it Haiti after its original Arawak name. In 1791, a slave revolt erupted on the French colony , and Toussaint-Louverture, a former slave, took control of the rebels.
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The Venezuelan War of Independence (1810–1823) was one of the Spanish American wars of independence of the early nineteenth century, when independence movements in Latin America fought against rule by the Spanish Empire , emboldened by Spain's troubles in the Napoleonic Wars .
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In 1819, December 17, the Republic of Colombia, known as Gran Colombia was proclaimed that Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador were included in it. At the same time, Colombia gained its independence from Spain and Simon Bolivar became the first president of Colombia.
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José Francisco de San Martín (February 25, 1778–August 17, 1850) was an Argentine general and governor who led his nation during the wars of Independence from Spain. He is counted among the founding fathers of Argentina and also led the liberations of Chile and Peru.
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A progressive priest named Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla became the father of Mexican independence with a historic proclamation urging his fellow Mexicans to take up arms against the Spanish government.
