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Central America is mainly mountainous, with the great Sierra Madre dominate the landscape of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Further south, smaller areas, including the Cordillera de Talamanca and the Serrania de Tabasara growth in Costa Rica and Panama. On the west coast of Central America, these picturesque mountains overlap in the green part of the dangerous Anillo de Fuego (ring of Fire), which surrounds the Pacific Ocean. The region is dotted with activeVolbuy.cheap.advanced.elements.inflatable.canoe-20" title="canoe">canoes and earthquakes often strike. Central American mountains and jungle, the ruins of the great Mayan empire are set close to 3000 years.

This remarkable civilization reached its peak between about 250 and 900 AD. Maya leaders, scholars, priests and artists have developed advanced systems of government, religion and society. Even if the culture collapsed mysteriously in 900, his legacy survives in the form ofmagnificent pyramids, ancient scriptures and traditions and stories passed down among the modern Maya. went to the Mayan empire, a new kingdom sent its troops into the region. In the late 1400 and early 1500, the conquistadores (conquerors) from Spain arrived, the exploration and colonization of the Americas.

The islands of the Caribbean, South America, Mexico and were captured. Hungry for more treasures, including gold, silver and other precious goods, the conquistadors soontheir attention to Central America. Descendants of the Maya and other indigenous peoples resisted conquest by the Spaniards ahead. However, local people were often divided into many subgroups, and each of these forces could not with the Spaniards in numbers and weapons. Have been weakened further by new diseases brought from Europe has killed thousands of Mayan Indians and others, such as Spain swept the armies of the isthmus. Throughout Central America, Spanish colonists forcedthe local population in the work of bone in large plantations call.

Cultivation of valuable plants such as cotton and cocoa (used for the manufacture of chocolate), these companies produced a great wealth for the Spanish colonists. Meanwhile, the population has grown poorer and weaker. In 1700 resulted in increasing demand for labor in the plantations at the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade in America. Thousands of Africans were forced on ships and led to overcrowdedMare, unease and misery in their new home. Although relatively few slaves were compared with Central America with its neighbors in the North and South America, some slaves are still there. Mingled with the local population, as well as immigrants from the Caribbean islands to the north-east, the new cultural and culinary influences of the region.

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