Countries of South America

Argentina

 

Bolivia  1  2

Bouvet Island

Brazil

Chile

Colombia   1  2  3

Ecuador  1  2

French Guiana   1  2 

Guyana

 

Paraguay

Peru  1  2  3  4  5  6

South Georgia

South Sandwich Islands

Suriname   1  2

Uruguay  1  2

Venezuela  1  2

 

Some Native Groups of South America

Andean peoples  1  2
 Chavin (900 – 200 BC)
 Moche and Nazca: (200 BC – AD 600)
 Sican (800 – 1470)

 

Chimú  1  2  3

Chono  1  2

Ge

Inca  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10

 

Ona   1  2  3

Pijao  1  2

Quechua  1  2  3

Sirionó

Warao

Yanomami

 

 

Key Inca Leaders Key Spanish Explorers
Inca Government

 

Inca rulers  1  2  3
 Sinchi Roca (1178 – 1190)  1  2  3
 Viracocha Inca (1410 – 1438)
 Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui (1438 – 1471)  1  2  3
 Topa Inca Yupanqui (1471 – 1493)  1  2
 Huayna Capac (1493 – 1524)   1  2
 Atahualpa (1532-1533) –
 Manco Inca (1536 – 1544)
 Túpac Amaru (1554 – 1572)

Fourteen portraits of the Inka Kings

Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512)

 

Vasco Nuñez de Balboa (1475-1519)

Hernando Cortés (1485-1547)

Juan Ponce de León

Francisco Pizarro (1474 – 1541)

Hernando de Soto (1496-1542)

 

Ancient Ruins of South America

Machu Picchu  1  2  3  4  5  6  7
 Choquequirao
 Huayna Picchu
 Intihuatana
 Intipata Ruins
 Kenko
 Moray   1  2  3
 Muyucmarca
 Paucarcancha Ruins
 Phuyupatamarca
 Pikillaqta   1  2  3
 Pisac
 Raqchi
 Sacsayhuaman
 Sun Gate Inti Punku
 Tambomachay Cusco   1  2  3
 Temple of the three windows
 The temple of the Moon
 The temple of the Sun
 Tipon
 Winay Wayna   1  2  3

 

Hiram Bingham  1  2  3

Ahu Tongariki   1  2  3

 

Chan Chan   1  2  3

Ciudad Perdida  1  2  3

Cueva de las Manos  1  2

Cusco/Cuzco  1  2  3  4

El Dorado, Legendary City of Gold  1  2  3

Faro Holandes (Dutch Lighthouse)

Inca Trail   1  2  3  4  5

Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis   1  2  3

Lake Titicaca  1  2  3

The Moais of Easter Island   1  2  3

Nazca Lines   1  2  3

Parque Nacional de Serra de Capivara   1  2

San Agustin Archaeological Park  1  2  3

Tiwanaku (aka Tiahuanaco)   1  2  3

 

 

   Timeline of Indian And Latin America (14,500 BC-1848 AD)

 

  Pre-Colombian History

  The colonies in South America

  Extraordinary 1915 Photos from Ernest Shackleton’s Disastrous Antarctic Expedition

  Ernest Shackleton Leads a Harrowing Expedition (Harvard Business Review podcast)

  Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition of Survival (YouTube)