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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ... the region, and sometimes refered to as the "[[Switzerland]] of [[Latin America]]."
3: ''See also: [[Military of Costa Rica]]''
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32: ...ation|E]]) <br /> - [[Population density|Density]]
35: ... Domestic Product|GDP]]''' ([[Purchasing_Power_Parity|PPP]])<br /> - Total ([[2003]]):<br /> ... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...[[social]], [[religion|religious]], [[politics|political]], and [[economics|economic]] structures.
4: ...re, at odds with the [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] government on issues of [[taxation]] and [[r...
9: ...terest in [[geography]] and an intellectual curiosity about the world that had subsided during the Mid...
11: ... mounted an effort of colonization and conquest. Within a few years, they had divided up lucrative [[S...
13: ...ly close to Europe, Spain and Portugal had taken little interest in them, so as far as the Europeans w... - Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
5: ...mpire of modern-day [[Peru]] (not to be confused with another Francisco Pizarro who joined Cortés to ...
7: ...choice between seeking fame and glory in a war in Italy, or trying his luck in the Spanish colonies of...
12: ...ter said. Thus warned, Cortés organized his expedition and set sail on the morning of [[January 18]],...
15: ... to say, in his narrative Cortés manipulates reality in order to achieve his overarching purpose of g...
18: ...slavery, though he proved less and less useful as it became apparent that Marina was trilingual: she s... - Teotihuacan (6370 bytes)
1: ...to the civilization this city dominated, which at its greatest extent included much of [[Mesoamerica]]...
3: ...etre|km]] (about 25 miles) northeast of [[Mexico City]], which covers a total surface area of 82.66 [[...
5: ...ions a written accent would not appear in that position. Both pronunciations are used, and both spelli...
7: ... unknown. Recently the glyph that represents the city has been translated as "The place of the preciou...
9: ...apital of [[Tula, Hidalgo|Tula]] (''Tollan Xicocotitlan'' in Nahuatl). - Toltec (2981 bytes)
3: ...eavy, especially evident at the city of [[Chichen Itza]]. Their pottery has been found as far south as...
5: .... Thus the Toltecs seem to have introduced the habit of mass [[human sacrifice]] as later practiced by...
7: ...d to descend from Toltec ancestry via the sacred city of [[Colhuacᮝ].
9: ...]], which did not fall until centuries later when it was burned by [[HernᮠCort鳝] and the Spanish [...
11: ...r after a "dark age" in Central Mexico, together with some references by the Maya. Toltec rulers are s... - Aztec (38742 bytes)
3: ...excoco]] – the site of modern-day [[Mexico City]].
7: ...eals with the historical Aztec civilization, not with modern-day Nahuatl speakers.
9: ...'' was like the modern use of ''Latino'', or ''Mediterranean'': a broad term that does not refer to a ...
11: ...ca, instead they should be known as Mexica. The [[conquistadores]] knew them as "Mexica".
13: ... should be built. This sculpture is in [[Mexico City]].]] - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
2: ...in|Spanish]] ''[[conquistador]]'' who led an expedition that caused the [[conquest of the Aztec Empire...
4: ... to Spain in 1541 where he died peacefully but embittered.
6: ...scriptions of Cortés tend to be simplistic, and either damning or idealizing.
14: ...mpire of modern-day [[Peru]] (not to be confused with another Francisco Pizarro who joined Cortés to ...
16: ...as to the nature of Cortés' studies, his later writings and actions suggest he studied [[Law]] and pr...
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