Latin America refers to a group of countries stretching from Mexico to the tip of South America. Categorized by their Romance ...

The Spanish Empire of the beginning of the 16th century ... About Columbia’s Cartagena de Indias—the gateway to 18th-century South America—the authors write that no visitor today “can ...

Around 40,000 Inca nobles ruled an empire of 12 million conquered people throughout the Andes mountain range in South America ... work on farms and in mines. Spanish forces arrived in the Andes ...

Consumption of coca dates back to the very earliest of ancient South American ... B.C. It was during the Inca Empire, however, a little before the arrival of the Spanish, that coca attained ...

The legend begins in the 16th century, when the great Inca Empire in western South America was giving way ... in Cajamarca in modern-day Peru by Spanish commander Francisco Pizarro.

Since its discovery by Christopher Columbus in 1493, Cuba was considered the "Pearl" of the Spanish Empire--not only for its beauty, but also its sugar plantations. However, by the middle of the ...