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World History PicturePacks
  (Countries Beyond Europe)

      A History of Africa
     B Middle Eastern History
     C Latin American History
     D History of Japan
     E History of Korea
     F History of China
     G India, Pakistan, Afghanistan & Asiatic Russia
     H Southeast Asia, The Philippines, & Oceania
     I Australia, New Zealand, Canada & International Organizations
     

CONTENTS : Latin American History

     

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World History PicturePack Collection C: Latin American History
 
 Everything listed below is included in this single PicturePack Collection.
All images full screen, with articles.

LA01: Mesoamerica & South America, 150 B.C. to 1450 A.D. An Olmec "head." ● The Wrestler, Olmec civilization, 150 B.C ● Tablet of the Cross, Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico ● Front of Temple of Quetzalcoatl, Mexico ● Detail of a Bonampak fresco, Chiapas, Mexico ● Section of embroidered cloak from Paracas in Peru ● Pottery of Moche (or "Mochica") culture ● Pottery of the Nazca culture, southern Peru ● The Nazca lines ● Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca ● Four stelae, at Tula, Mexico ● Figures from a Mixtec codex ● The Castle at Chichén Itzá, Yucatan, Mexico ● The ball court at Chichén Itzá, Yucatan, Mexico ● The founding of Tenochtitlán, ca. 1369 ● An Aztec human sacrifice ● Page from the Codex Mendoza ● Punishment of official, Codex Florenti ● An Aztec obsidian mask ● Ceremonial knife (tume) of the Chimú culture ● An offertory sculpture of Chancay, Peru ● Terracing at Machu Picchu, Peru ● An Inca golden vase ● Inca foundations at Cuzco, Peru ● Incas sharing coca leaf
 

LA02: Explorers & Conquistadors to 1550Queen Isabella of Castille (1451-1504) ● Christopher Columbus landing in New World 1492 ● The fleet of Pedro Alvares Cabral ● Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512) ● Juan Ponce de León (1460?-1521) ● Balboa claims dominion over the South Seas ● King Charles V became Charles I of Spain, 1516 ● Hernan Cortés (1485-1547) ● Tlaxcalans receive Cortés ● Cortés enters Tenochtitlán ● Part of Diego Rivera mural of Tenochtitlán ● Reception of Cortés by Moctezuma II ● Aztecs' defeat Spaniards during noche triste ● The battle for Tenochtitlán ● A land grant to Cortés ● Pizarro, Luque, and Almagro sign a contract ● The seizure of Atahualpa, 1533 ● The battle for Cuzco ● Francisco Pizarro (ca. 1470-1541) ● Civil war in Peru ● Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada (1509?-1579) ● Pedro de Valdivia (1500?-1553) ● Hernando de Soto locates the Mississippi ● Amazons
 

LA03: Colonization and New Spain, 1492 to 1820 Cathedral of Santa María la Menor, Santo Domingo ● Bartolomé de Las Casas (1484-1566) ● Spaniards beating Indian bearers ● The Virgin of Guadalupe, Mexico ● Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1500?-1590) ● Vasco de Quiroga (1470?-1563) ● The Cathedral of Mexico ● Viceroy and AudienciaCorregidores punishing an Indian ● Urbs Domingo in Hispaniola ● The Potosímine ● The Portobelo (Panama) fair ● 1929 Diego Rivera mural in Cortés' palace ● Slaves working in a mine ● Breaking up Mexican silver ore by patio process ● Drake attacks Cartagena ● Dutch Admiral Piet Heyn capture a Spanish fleet ● Mexico City, ca. 1670 ● Carlos Signenza y Góngora (1645-1700) ● Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695) ● Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616) ● Pulpit of the Church of San Blas, at Cuzco, Peru ● Christ of the Earthquake Cuzco, Peru ● Arch from ruins of Jesuit mission in Argentina ● King Charles II (1665-1700) ● King Philip V (1700-1746) ● Portrait of Marquesa de San Jorge de Bogotá ● King Charles III (1759-1788) ● The British take Morro Castle, Havana, July 1762 ● José de Gálvez (1729-1786) ● The Miners' College at Mexico City ● Map of Spanish and Portuguese viceroyalties, 1780 ● Cattle ranch (estancia), Argentina, ca. 1820 ● Father Francisco Javier de Clavijero (1731-1787)
 

LA04: Seeds of Rebellion & Colonial Brazil José Gabriel Condorcanqui (ca. 1742-1781) ● Manuela Beltrán breaking the Spanish Coat of Arms ● Baron Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) ● Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) ● Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) ● Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) ● The taking of the Bastille, July 14, 1789 ● Artist's view of battle during Haitian Revolution ● King Charles IV (1748-1819) preferred to hunt ● A cathedral altar at Cuzco, Peru, dated ca. 1650 ● The British take Buenos Aires, 1806 ● The reconquest of Buenos Aires, 1807 ● A relief map of Brazil ● A Brazilian native ● Martim Afonso de Sousa (1500-1571) ● Tomé de Sousa (d. 1579) ● Slaves working in Brazilian sugar mill, ca. 1625 ● Mem de Sá, third governor general of Brazil ● The Dutch attack on Brazil ● The battle of Guararapes, Brazil ● A gold mine in Brazil ● Father Antônio Vieira (1608-1697) ● Capitão mor, Brazil, ca. 1835 ● Candomblé cult worship, Bahia, Brazil, 1962 ● Wooden statue of Holy Mothers, Easy Death Church ● Prophet Naum in Church of Bom Jesus de Matozinhos ● The Marquês de Pombal (1699-1782) ● Painting, Tiradentes on the gallows, 1792 
 

LA05: Independence, 1807 to 1825 Joseph Bonaparte, (1768-1844) ● Ferdinand VII, (1784-1833) ● Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (1753-1811) ● José Clemente Orozco mural of Father Hidalgo ● Father José María Morelos y Pavón (1765-1815) ● Father José Morelos y Pavón mural, Cortes' palace ● Vicente Guerrero (1782-1831) ● Agustín de Iturbide (1783-1824) ● A cabildo abierto in Buenos Aires, 1810 ● Dr. José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia (1766-1840) ● José Gervasio Artigas (1764-1850) ● José de San Martín (1778-1850) ● The battle of Maipú, April 5, 1818 ● Lord Thomas Cochrane (1775-1860) ● Simon Bolívar (1783-1830) ● Emigration to the East ● The Congress of Angostura, 1819 ● The battle of Boyacá, August 5, 1819 ● The battle of Carabobo, July 1821 ● Antonio José de Sucre (1795-1830) ● José San Martín and Símon Bolívar at Guayaquil ● The battle of Ayacucho, December 9, 1824 ● The Portuguese royal family leaving Lisbon, 1807 ● Dom João VI, King of Portugal (1769-1826) ● Dom Pedro I (1798-1834) 
  

LA06: Independent Latin America, 1825 to 1870 ● Grito de Ypiranga, September 7, 1822 ● U.S. President James Monroe (1758-1831) ● A map of Latin America in 1830 ● The Buenos Aires harbor, ca. 1820 ● Juan Manuel de Rosas (1798-1877) ● A Mazorca official ● The flag of Rosas' Argentina ● A Buenos Aires slaughterhouse, 1841 ● Domingo Fausto Sarmiento (1811-1888) ● Indians attacking settlers, 1840 ● The battle of Monte Caseros, 1852 ● General Justo José de Urquiza (1800-1870) ● Bernardo O'Higgins (1778-1842) ● Diego Portales (1793-1837) ● Threshing in Chile, ca. 1850 ● A hacienda in the Central Valley, Chile, ca. 1830 ● Andrés Santa Cruz (1792-1865) ● A guano quarry on Chincha Islands, Peru, 1857 ● The house of Emperor Agustín I in Mexico City ● Veracruz, Mexico ● Stephen F. Austin (1793-1836) ● Antonio López de Santa Anna (1795-1876) ● Siege of the Alamo, San Antonio de Béjar, Texas, ● A stage coach attacked ● General James Knox Polk (1795-1849) ● General Zachary Taylor at Buena Vista 1846 ● The U.S. landing at Veracruz, March 1847 ● The storming of Chapultepec ● General Winfield Scott entering Mexico City 1847 ● A map of the U.S. and Mexican border, 1848-1853 ● President José Joaquín de Herrera (1792-1854) ● Benito Juárez (1806-1872) ● Emperor Napoleon III (1808-1873) ● The French invasion: Puebla under siege, 1862 ● Emperor Maximilian of Mexico (1832-1867) ● Marshal Achille Francois Bazaine (1811-1888) ● Execution of Emperor Maximilian, July 19, 1867 ● The Junta in Pernambuco, Brazil, 1824 ● Dom Pedro II (1825-1891), Emperor of Brazil ● British ship chasing Brazilian slaver, ca.1850 ● A coffee plantation in Brazil, ca. 1825 ● Railway construction, Brazil, 1860 ● Francisco Solano López (1826-1870) ● Marshal Luís Alves de Lima Caxias at Fort Humaitá
  

LA07: Latin America, 1870 to 1914; Brazil, MexicoEntrance to coffee hacienda in Mexico, 1907 ● An Italian settler and his family in Brazil ● Joaquim Nabuco (1849-1910) ● Slaves Thanking Master for the Law of 1871Indian & Mule Turning Monarchical Waterwheel ● German immigrants in Brazil ● Princess Isabel becomes Regent of Brazil, 1888 ● Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca (1827-1892) ● Ruy Barbosa (1849-1923) ● A Brazilian sugar mill in the early 1800s ● Antonio Conselheiro (Anthony the Counselor) ● Loading coffee, Santos, Brazil, ca. 1910-1920 ● Tapping a rubber tree in Brazil, ca. 1910 ● A cotton mill in São Paulo, ca. 1910 ● The São Paulo financial center, 1914 ● Porfirio Díaz (1830-1915) ● Order and Progress, Mexico City, 1900 ● Rurales in Mexico, ca. 1906 ● José Yves Limantour (1854-1935) ● A wealthy family's home, Mexico ● Silver ore being broken up by Mexican peons ● A Mexican shoe factory, ca. 1909 ● Double-ended locomotive for mountains in Mexico ● The 1906 Cananea riot at Sonora, Mexico ● A 1900 cartoon, Sigue Bajando, "Going Down." ● Porfirio Díaz (1830-1915) ● Francisco (Pancho) Villa (1877-1923) ● The insurrection at Ciudad Juárez, May 19, 1911 ● Pascual Orozco and his men, Juárez, May 26, 1911 ● Francisco Madero and revolutionary leaders ● Francisco Madero (1873-1913), President of Mexico ● Victoriano Huerta (1845-1916) 
 

LA08: U.S. & Latin America, 1860 to 1914 "My, My Such Possibilities." ● Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) ● Punishing slaves in Cuba, ca. 1868 ● U.S. marines landing at Veracruz, April 1914 ● "Look, Uncle - there's a bully pear!" ● William Walker (1824-1860) ● Wallach mansion, Pan American Conference site ● José Enrique Rodó (1871-1917) ● Rubén Darío (1867-1916) ● Boiling house, part of sugar making process, Cuba ● Antonio Maceo (1848-1896) ● Transporting sugar cane in Cuba, ca. 1890 ● A reader in a Cuban tobacco factory ● José Martí (1853-1895) ● The wreck of the U.S.S. Maine ● U.S. soldiers in Cuba, 1898 ● Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders, 1898 ● A Cuban village, ca. 1899 ● The Cuban National Convention, November 5, l900 ● Locomotives used by French, Panama canal attempt ● Philippe Bunau-Varilla (1859-1940) ● Panamanian soldiers, 1903 ● Building the Panama Canal, 1907 ● Harvesting bananas in Costa Rica, 1905 ● José Santos Zelaya (1853-1919)p
 

LA09: Argentina, Chile & Peru, 1870 to 1914 Loading Argentine beef on a ship, early 1900s ● Immigrants arriving in Argentina, 1907 ● A fashionable shop in Buenos Aires, 1885 ● José Hernández (1834-1886) ● The conquest of the desert ● General Julio A. Roca (1843-1914) ● Dining room of immigrant hotel in Buenos Aires ● Cartoon showing problems of foreign debt, 1923 ● Hipólito Yrigoyen (1852-1933) ● José Batlle y Ordóñez (1856-1929) ● A busload of immigrants at Buenos Aires, ca. 1916 ● Railroad from Chilean nitrate mines to sea, 1900 ● An open pit copper mine in Chile ● Threshing wheat by machine in Chile, ca. 1869 ● The Chilean army, 1879 ● General Manuel Baquedano (1826-1897) ● Araucanian Indians, ca. 1910 ● A Chilean nitrate plant, ca. 1900 ● José Manuel Balmaceda (1840-1891) ● The Chilean House of Congress ● Inquilinos (sharecroppers), Chile, ca. 1900 ● A textile factory in Chile ● Henry Meiggs (1811-1877) ● Manuel Pardo (1834-1878) ● William Russell Grace (1832-1904) ● Workers in silver smelter, Cerro de Pasco, Peru ● Manuel González Prada (1848-1918) ● The Victoria cotton mills at Lima, Peru, 1908
 

LA10: Mexico After 1913 The Trench, by José Clemente Orozco ● Dead in the streets of Mexico City, 1914 ● Villa's troops marching through Chihuahua, Mexico ● A 1916 cartoon, Villa Salutes the U.S. Flag ● The court of a government building in Querétaro ● The patio process of breaking up silver ore ● A cartoon, Some Promise ● Venustiano Carranza (1859-1920) ● Rivera mural, The Legacy of Independence ● Crude oil pumping station, Veracruz, Mexico, 1920 ● President Alvaro Obregón (1880-1928) ● Plutarco Elías Calles (1875-1945) ● Cartoon, Keeping the Old Messenger Boy Busy ● Ambassador Dwight Morrow (1873-1931) ● The Mexican presidential election, 1929 ● Tijuana during prohibition, ca. 1934 ● Lázaro Cárdenas (1895-1970) ● Confederación de Trabajadores Mexicacanos ● President Manuel Camacho and President Roosevelt ● The steel plant in Monterrey, 1940 ● 1961Mexico City rally for president Adolfo Mateos ● President Johnson returns Chamizal land to Mexico ● An irrigation project at Jalisco, Mexico, 1977 ● President José López Portillo ● Miguel de la Madrid
 

LA11: Argentina After 1922 A room in the Universidad Nacional, Cordóba, 1915 ● Lt. Gen. Uriburu (1868-1932) ● A cartoon concerning the Concordancia ● President Uriburu's arch rival, General Justo ● A cartoon concerning Roca-Runciman Pact of 1933 ● An Argentine meat packing plant, ca. 1920 ● 1928 Buenos Aires May Day (Labor Day) celebration ● The tango, Buenos Aires ● Carlos Gardel (1890-1935) ● Roberto M. Ortiz (1886-1942) ● 1939 cartoon of Nazis playing cards in Patagonia ● An anti-Perón rally, December 8, l946 ● A wheat harvest in Argentina, 1972 ● "Perón Cumple" (Perón Delivers) ● Evita Perón (1918-1952) ● Juan Domingo Perón (1895-1974) ● Arturo Frondizi in UN headquarters, 1961 ● Isabel Martínez de Perón ● Argentine miners using "jumbo" pneumatic drill ● Raúl Alfonsín (b. 1927)
 

LA12: Cuba After 1919 General Enoch Crowder (1859-1932) ● Gerardo Machado (1871-1938) ● Hauling sugar cane to the mill, ca. 1915 ● An ABC parade in Havana, Cuba, 1934 ● Roosevelt inaugurated ● Cuban communists celebrate governnment fall, 1933 ● Gamblers in Havana, 1940 ● Eduardo Raúl Chibás (1907-1951) ● A student demonstration against Batista ● The Moncada barracks, 1953, with bullet scars ● The yacht Granma ● Castro enters Havana, January 8, 1959 ● The national literacy campaign, 1961 ● Fidel Castro ● Castro descends from tank at Bay of Pigs, 1961 ● A Soviet missile base in Cuba ● A Cuban agrarian reform poster, 1961 ● Proclaiming nationalization of U.S. companies ● Castro, Guevara and Anastas Mikoyan, 1963 ● Housing in Cuba
 

LA13: Brazil & Chile After 1914 "The Prestes column." ● Rebel troops, 1930 ● Loading coffee at Santos ● Paulista soldiers, 1932 ● Getúlio Vargas (1883-1954) ● Integralistas, Brazil ● A rubber factory in Brazil, 1942 ● W W II Brazilian Expeditionary Force in Naples ● Scene inside Volta Redonda steel mill, Brazil ● Getulio Vargas ● John Dulles welcomes Juscelino Kubitschek, 1956 ● Jânio da Silva Quadros (b. 1917) ● Kennedy with Goulart, 1962 ● Demonstration supports nationalization of oil ● Peasants in northeast Brazil ● Troops in Brasilia, 1964 ● A slum in Salvador, Brazil, 1983 ● A tractor at work in a Brazilian soybean field ● A car being fueled with gasohol ● Brazilian President José Sarney (b. 1930) ● Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961) ● Kennedy announces the Alliance for Progress ● Braden copper mines in Chile, in the early 1900s ● The home of a landed farmer in Chile ● A cartoon of Arturo Alessandri (1868-1950) ● Carlos Ibáñez (1877-1960) ● Scene from bus fare riot in Santiago, Chile 1949 ● Slums in Santiago, Chile, August, 1964 ● Eduardo Frei Montalva (1911-1982) ● Grape pickers in a Chilean vineyard ● The Club Viña del Mar, Chile ● A Marxist demonstration in Santiago, 1972 ● General Augusto Pinochet (b. 1915)
 

LA14: Central America After 1914 A "Yanky Go Home" effigy in Panama, February 1964 ● Principal signers of Panama Canal Treaty, 1978 ● A contemporary political map of Central America ● U.S. marines arrive in Nicaragua, 1927 ● Sandino's troops, August 25, 1928 ● Augusto César Sandino (1893-1934) ● President Anastasio Somoza García (1896-1956) ● Anastasio Debayle with World Bank president Black ● Earthquake scene in Managua, Nicaragua, 1972 ● Carter meets with Sandinista leaders ● Woman given shot, Nicaraguan health clinic ● A farmer at work in El Salvador ● Salvadoran troops assembled in soccer stadium ● José Napoleón Duarte ● U.S. marines in Santo Domingo, May 8, 1965 ● Antonio Guzmán (1911-1982) ● The Catavi tin mine in Bolivia, 1940 ● Bolivian women at a market ● General Juan Velasco Alvarado ● An agrarian reform sign, Peru ● President Fernando Belaúnde Terry ● Troops in Bogotá during Colombian election 1949 ● Children work, Bogotá, Colombia brick factory ● A woman in a Mexican laboratory, 1970
 

LA15: Modern Latin AmericaA global view of Latin America ● Steel being rolled in Volta Redonda steel mill ● Two Mexican labor organization's battle results ● Fidel Castro ● Nazis in Santiago, Chile, 1940 ● Lázaro Cárdenas (1895-1970) ● Alfredo Stroessner ● Dwellings of poor with skyscrapers, 1982 ● Indians in the Amazon jungle ● A contemporary political map of Latin America ● The Andes in Patagonia ● A family on the Amazon river ● A cattle ranch in Argentina ● A contemporary view of Mexico City ● La Florida Street in Buenos Aires, Argentina ● Four Latin American Nobel Prize winners ● Islote (Little Island) by Altamirano  
 


 

 

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