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Fransico Pizarro and his fellow spanish conquistadors first glimpsed the new world in 1524. these men vissioned lands of gold that led to aggresive colonization
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Spanish conquerors firmly implanted their languaue, religon, and costumes onto the natives
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Bolivia was apart of the Inca empire. After Spaniards defeated the Incas the natives became slaves.
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In 1825 Bolivia gained its own indapendce, and named after Simon Bolivar.
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Andre's Santa Cruz established himself dictator after efailing in an attempt in the previous year to be elected president.
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Peru and Bolivia make a secret alliance with one another that will later drag both of them into war with Chile.
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Bolivia losses a tremenduse amount of land and their only coastline in the War of the Pacific
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Bolivia and Paraguay both disputed over the Chaco region, and this dispute turned into a full fleged war. Bolivia Won the war and kept the Chaco region.
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Many of the bolivian miners wanted better working conditions, higher pay, and less exporting to Europe so they revolted with the guidence of Victor Paz Estenssoro.
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the revolt over the mines in bolivia ended after the bolivian military had given up, And Paz Estenssoro had become president of bolivia.
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After President Tejada had died in a helocopter crash, the Bolizian goverment elected Hernan Siles Zuazo as president. Zuazo Hhelped boost the economy greatly. At one point he raised it 35%.
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President Sanchez de Lozada resigns and fleas to Miami (where he lives today). And his Vice President Carlos Mesa took over.
