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“That was the year of the floods, which were immortalized in schoolchildren’s textbooks and in their grandparents’ memories. . . .a series of minor temblors, which came like God’s wrath, finished destroying everything ". The narrator said this phrase, and he's talking about the Year of the Floods in Chile.
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“ . . .rich veins of silver and gold were discovered in the north”
In these years veins of silver and gold were found in Chile by Juan Godoy, this event started the chilean gold rush -
“...SF wasn't much of a town”
In those years plenty of people were going in San Francisco in order to improve their life. -
During February of 1849 “Chilean and Peruvian women on their way to California . . ” for the California Gold Rush.
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“By that time there were more than 100,000 argonauts . . .”
They arrived in California to make their fortune. -
In 1839 there was a war in China, known as the "Opium War" between the Chinese and British people, mainly because foreign traders (primarily British) had been illegally exporting opium mainly from India to China since the 18th century.