mountainous regions with villages on the Pacific coast. From 2500 to 1000 BC, villages that thrived near the Pacific coast grew into complex societies. As a result, agriculture and trade with other villages became a common way of life. Improvements in slash-and-burn cultivation technique and the use of new root crops have greatly increased the chances of economic prosperity. Arawak-speaking peoples begin to settle and expand in the Amazon basin, creating multiple dialects as they move. Near the Atlantic coast, communities created dumps: areas where waste was dumped; habitation mounds and ritual platforms. Between 1000 and 500 BC, the Chavin civilization appeared on the highlands of Peru. South America's first urban civilization had temple complexes and produced fine textiles and porcelain...... middle of paper ......Anish and Portuguese, caused diseases such as smallpox, slavery and stole the land of the inhabitants. . The Spanish empire stretched from Venezuela to Argentina and Chile. The Spanish religion was Catholic and society was dominated by landowners descended from the conquistadors. One of the reasons the Spanish conquered and possessed these lands was the silver mines of Peru, Colombia and Bolivia. The Portuguese neglected their Brazilian region, so other Europeans, mainly Dutch, took advantage of this opportunity to establish their own colonies in this region. The natives of South America slowly won their independence through rebellion and the need for freedom. In the late 19th and 20th centuries, there was a strong economic expansion that led to the development of steamships and refrigeration. com/history/south-america-3500bc

Essay / mountainous regions with villages on the Pacific coast. From 2500 to 1000 BC, villages that thrived near the Pacific coast grew into complex societies. As a result, agriculture and trade with other villages became a common way of life. Improvements in slash-and-burn cultivation technique and the use of new root crops have greatly increased the chances of economic prosperity. Arawak-speaking peoples begin to settle and expand in the Amazon basin, creating multiple dialects as they move. Near the Atlantic coast, communities created dumps: areas where waste was dumped; habitation mounds and ritual platforms. Between 1000 and 500 BC, the Chavin civilization appeared on the highlands of Peru. South America's first urban civilization had temple complexes and produced fine textiles and porcelain...... middle of paper ......Anish and Portuguese, caused diseases such as smallpox, slavery and stole the land of the inhabitants. . The Spanish empire stretched from Venezuela to Argentina and Chile. The Spanish religion was Catholic and society was dominated by landowners descended from the conquistadors. One of the reasons the Spanish conquered and possessed these lands was the silver mines of Peru, Colombia and Bolivia. The Portuguese neglected their Brazilian region, so other Europeans, mainly Dutch, took advantage of this opportunity to establish their own colonies in this region. The natives of South America slowly won their independence through rebellion and the need for freedom. In the late 19th and 20th centuries, there was a strong economic expansion that led to the development of steamships and refrigeration. com/history/south-america-3500bc

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