... order to get the profitable resources, people had to suffer. Shortly after Columbus discovered America, in the early 1500s, Spain invaded what is now South America and attacked the Incas, Mayas and Aztecs who had civilized and developed cultures. Spaniards used firearms but mostly utilized pikes and blades to take ... . The conquest of Guatemala and Yucatan was shortly after that of Aztec Mexico and preceded that of the Incas in Chile. These parts of South America gave them access to a lot of gold and silver. The powerhouse countries of today are the ones who put these struggling countri...

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... years, which still changes the outward appearance of the earth. When you look at the map of the world, you see how well the east coast of North and South America fits into the west coast of Europe and Africa. Over millions of years these continents have slowly drifted apart. Where plates pull apart, hot molten rock emerges as lava and so new ... each of the world's great oceans there is a mid-ocean ridge. An example is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the Atlantic Ocean, which stretches from the North Pole to the South Pole. Mid-ocean ridges are areas of much volcanic and earthquake activity. ...

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