How the democratic success of Costa Rica can be accredited back to colonial times Boasting with confidence, Costa Rica has been known to be one of the most democratic and wealthiest Latin American countries. ... Costa Rica joined the Central American federation, a confederation of the Central American states. ... He established a judicial system, expanded public education, and promoted coffee plantations (Baker 2003). ... Along the railroad, banana plantations were also set up. ... Conflicts were avoided unlike other Central American colonies. ...

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One of the most influential empires of the colonial era is the Spanish empire. ... Burkholder, author of Colonial Latin America, states, "Probably more Indians died in the epidemic than from wounds received in battle" (Burkholder et al. 2012). ... Author of Latin America in Colonial Times, Matthew Restall, states, "there is no evidence that Atawallpa or any of his subjects mistook the Spaniards for gods, although their weapons, horses, and physical features (particularly their hirsute bodies) were cause for amazement," (Restall et al. 2011) However what does make these enco...

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From Colonies to Nations: The Struggle for Independence Many Latin American colonies gained their independence from colonial control early in the early 1800s. ... In 1791, a group of black leaders initiated a slave rebellion against the colonial administrators who refused to follow the National Assemblies orders; allow citizenship and the right to vote to those mulattoes who owned land and paid their taxes. ... Mexico had become a republic and Central America had been divided into independent nations. Bolívar led an independence movement in northern South America. ... Dessalines had tried to...

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But nevertheless, the right circumstances and sequence of events launched Christopher Columbus into the history books as the "Founder of the New World" and the forerunner of Western civilization in the Americas. ... They enslaved the men and put them to work in gold mines and colonial plantations. ... Christopher Columbus paved the way for the colonization and exploitation of the Americas. He laid the foundation with the blood of millions of Native Americans for the systematic genocide and displacement of the Native Americans that would ensue in the years to come. ... His lust for go...

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