A fascinating look at how cities in North & Central America line up with their Southern Hemisphere counterparts, revealing surprising geographic parallels and climate patterns.
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For over 400 years, the transatlantic slave trade shaped the world, uprooting millions from Africa and forcing them into brutal labor in the Americas. This post explores the scale, horrors, and lasting impact of this dark chapter in human history.
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The Native languages of the Americas with the largest number of speakers encompass a diverse array of linguistic families and cultural backgrounds. Notably, Quechua stands out as one of the most widely spoken indigenous languages in Americas.
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The Americas are a landmass in the Western Hemisphere, encompassing North and South America and covering 8% of Earth’s total surface area and 28.4% of its land area.
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In most Americas countries, the black population was concentrated where there were originally plantations and where slaves went.
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Take a closer look at the fascinating history of Ottoman mapmaking, from Piri Reis’s remarkable works to the empire’s shift toward modern European techniques.
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Slavery in the Americas began with the arrival of the first Africans, who were primarily imported by Spain and Portugal. This brutal practice expanded significantly with the establishment of sugar plantations in Brazil and spread throughout the continent. Millions of Africans were forcibly brought to the Americas, shaping the economic and social foundations of the New World by the 18th century.
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Read MoreFirst ethnographic maps appeared in the 19th century to reveal the distribution of distinct ethnic groups and languages. They focus on parts of the colonial world in which the ethnic distribution was only coming to be studied by Western scientists and those regions of Europe and Asia where the geography of ethnicity differed with political borders.
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