does anyone know the history of Colombia?
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First Spanish settlement - 1514\nFirst Spanish city - Santa Marta - 1525\nSante Fe de Bogota founded (later just Bogota) - 1538\nindigenous people (Chibcha) submitted to Spanish rule - 1541\nViceroyalty of New Granada (first local government) created - 1717. Bogota has been the capital ever since then.\nRevolt for Independence began - 1808\nSimon Bolivar acquired military command in New Granada - 1813\nNew Granada won independence with the Battle of Boyaca - 1819\nIn 1819, the nation of Colombia began, it included all of what is now Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Panama.\nIn 1831 it split up into New Granada (Colombia and Panama), Venezuela, and Ecuador.
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from my memory, NOT an internet seach, copy and paste:\n\nWhen Francisco Pizzaro , his brother, and a small army of Spanish Conquistadores arrived in Peru in the year 1530?, they were at the right place at the right time.\nPizarro had learned a military tactic from the conquerer of Mexico, Hernando Cortez, and that was:  Find out who the enemy of your enemy is... and make an alliance with HIM.\nAt the time of Pizzaro's arrival, in the mid 1500's, he had already traveled south through Panama and down through Ecuador.  Here he learned that the Incan Empire was at this time divided between Atahualpa (in Central Peru) and his half-brother in Ecuador.  The empire was already on the verge of Civil War.\nPLUS these facts: \n 1.The Spanish had the advantage of steel weapons over stone weapons at this time.\n2. They had cannon to resist bows and arrows.\n3.  The terrorizing effect of horses, and large mastiff dogs...against footsoldiers who had never seen such beasts before.\n4. The lack of unity among the indians. They were just farmers, ruled by their "god" on earth (The 'Inca').  hardly ever travelling beyond their villages.\n5. The prophecies in Indian mythology about "the arrival of white gods one day".\nNOW WE FAST FORWARD to the reason Atahualpa did not order his "troops" to attack.\nPizzaro appeared friendly at first.  And remember, he could be allied with the northern empire.  Then, he secretly lured Atahualpa to a little village with a wall around it called CAJAMARCA.  Here, he could easily defend the walled village with his small force of Spaniards, horses, guns, cannon.  He kidnapped and imprisoned Atahualpa and demanded a ransom of a room full of gold, and another room full of silver.  Why now, would Atahualpa order an attack?  Atahualpa knew that filling a room full ofgold and silver WAS possible, so just pay the guy and he will leave,right?\nIndians came from miles and miles around, all bearing gold and silver.  The rooms were filled as promised.\nAnd then...?  You guessed it. Pizzaro ordered Atahualpa garroted (strangled) on August 29.  (my birthday).\nFor miles and miles around the word spread that Atahualpa was dead.  And thousands of Indians, who were STILL BRINGING GOLD, hid their undelivered gold in a secret place that has never been found.\nThe story continues, but this is enough to answer your question, my friend.
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Perhaps you can find your answer here:\n\nhttp://about.polo.com/history/history.asp
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Pre-Colombian era\n\nSouth America is thought to have been first inhabited by people crossing the Bering Land Bridge, now the Bering strait, though there are also suggestions of migration across the southern Pacific Ocean. Over the course of millennia, people spread to all parts of the continent. By the first millennium CE, South America’s vast rainforests, mountains, plains and coasts were the home of tens of millions of people. Some groups formed permanent settlements. Among those groups were the Chibchas (or "Muiscas" or "Muyscas") and the Tairona. The Chibchas of Colombia, the Quechuas of Peru and the Aymaras of Bolivia were the 3 most important sedentary Indian groups in South America.\n[edit]\nChibchas\nThe Chibcha linguistic communities were the most numerous, the most territorially extended and the most socio-economically developed of the Pre-Hispanic Colombians. By the 3rd century, the Chibchas had established their civilization in the northern Andes. At one point, the Chibchas occupied part of what is now Panama, and the high plains of the Eastern Sierra of Colombia. The areas that they occupied were the Departments of Santander (North and South), Boyacá and Cundinamarca, which were also the areas where the first farms and first industries were developed, and where the independence movement originated. They are currently the richest areas in Colombia. They represented the most populous zone between the Mexican and Inca empires. Next to the Quechua of Peru and the Aymara in Bolivia, the Chibchas of the eastern and north-eastern Highlands of Colombia were the most striking of the sedentary indigenous peoples in South America. In the Oriental Andes, the Chibchas were composed of several tribes, who spoke the same language (Chibchan). Among them: Muiscas, Guanes, Laches and Chitareros.
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The Wikipedia has a very good article about Brazil. I read it and couldn't find any serious mistakes.
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Try:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Pennsylvania
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go to\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina
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My friend thats my last name i life in Colombia, I have seen it comes from Spain in Burgos... It means something like the one who uses the -translated by computer- crossbows.You know\n------> ballestas the one who was expert in that.
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Check their website... it should be under the history section.
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Because Colombia had some internal problems.
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Yes, All countrys have a history.  Use an encyclopedia.
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My uncle is a Colombian (for the love of God, spell it right!) Air Force soldier, and he's fighting the guerrilla from above.\n\nThe US aids Colombia, by giving them weapons, but the guerrilla has money and power. They were even aided by past presidents!\n\nThe guerrilla is located somewhere in the Amazon which is in Southern Colombia. That's common knowledge there. The problem is, that it's hard to find them, as they have tons of tracking devices. Besides, the guerrilla knows that poverty is a huge problem, and uses that to their defense.\n\nI've suffered from the guerrilla, as they killed a close family member, and sent back his body in pieces.
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It's the name of a City in Colombia, South America--remember parts of Columbia hold strong African heritages.
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The recorded history of Haïti began when the island of Hispaniola was discovered by Christopher Columbus in December 1492. It was at that time inhabited by the Arawak (or Taíno), a Native American people, who called the island Haiti. Columbus established a small settlement near Cap-Haïtien, but, when he returned in 1493, the settlers had disappeared, presumably killed. He claimed the whole island for Spain, and left his brother Bartholomew Columbus to find a new settlement.\n\nFollowing the arrival of Europeans, Haïti's indigenous population suffered near-extinction, in possibly the worst case of depopulation in the Americas. This demographic collapse has been attributed by many to deliberate genocide on the part of the Spanish. The Catholic priest and contempory historian Bartolomé de Las Casas wrote in his multi-volume History of the Indies (1527-61):\n\nThere were 60,000 people living on this island (when I arrived in 1508), including the Indians; so that from 1494 to 1508, over three million people had perished from war, slavery and the mines. Who in future generations will believe this? \nIt is thought by many historians today that Las Casas's figures for the pre-contact levels of the Arawak population were an exaggeration and that a figure of slightly over a million original inhabitants is more likely. The high mortality in Haïti can be attributed at least in part to murder, forced labour and repression, but experience elsewhere suggests that the loss was largely the result of the introduction of Old World diseases, to which the inhabitants had no resistance.\n\nSpanish interest in Hispaniola began to wane in the 1520s, as more lucrative gold and silver deposits were found in Mexico and South America. Thereafter the population of Spanish Hispaniola grew slowly. Fearful of pirate attacks, the king of Spain in 1606 ordered all colonists on Hispaniola to move closer to the capital city, Santo Domingo. This backfired, as British, Dutch and French pirates then established bases on the island's abandoned northern and western coasts.\n\nFrench settlement of the island began in 1625, and, in 1664, France formally claimed control of the western portion of the island. By the 1697 Treaty of Ryswick, Spain officially ceded the western third of Hispaniola to France. France named its new colony Saint-Domingue.\n\nContents [hide]\n1 Colonial Saint-Domingue \n2 The Revolutionary Period \n3 Political struggles \n4 Foreign intervention \n5 Renewed dictatorship \n6 The Aristide era \n7 See also \n8 References \n \n\n\n[edit]\nColonial Saint-Domingue\nFrench planters established numerous sugar and coffee plantations, making Saint-Domingue the "Pearl of the Antilles" – one of the richest colonies in the 18th century French empire. By the 1780s, Saint-Domingue produced about 40 percent of all the sugar and 60 percent of all the coffee consumed in Europe. This single colony, roughly the size of Maryland or Belgium, produced more sugar and coffee than all of Britain's West Indian colonies combined.\n\nDuring this period, an estimated 790,000 African slaves were brought to work on sugarcane and coffee plantations (accounting in 1783-1791 for a third of the entire Atlantic slave trade), though inability to maintain slave numbers without constant resupply from Africa meant that at its end the population numbered only about 500,000, ruled by some 32,000 Whites. At all times, a majority of slaves in the colony were African-born, as the brutal conditions of slavery prevented the population from experiencing growth through natural increase[1]. African culture thus remained strong among slaves to the end of French rule.\n\nSaint-Domingue also had the largest and wealthiest free population of color in the Caribbean, a group also known as the gens de couleur. The royal census of 1789 counted roughly 25,000 such persons. Typically they were the descendants of the enslaved women that French colonists took as mistresses. Th
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Dude, youre asking too much about history...the past is past.
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Alvaro Uribe Velez\n\n\nThe Chief of State of Colombia \n\n\n\n\n President Alvaro Uribe Velez\n\n\n\nBORN\nJuly 4, 1952, in Medellin.\n\nEDUCATION\nUndergraduate degree in law and political science from Antioquia University. Graduate-level course work in business management and conflict resolution at Harvard University.\n\nCAREER\nServed as mayor of Medellin and two terms as senator of Antioquia province. Credited with bringing down crime and improving education during a single term as governor of Antioquia (1995-97).\n\nPERSONAL\nMarried, with two teenaged sons. Hobbies include yoga, swimming, and taming horses.\n\n\n\n PRESIDENT WITH VERY HIGH RATINGS.
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I've listed a link below with some history on it - hope this helps.