Pre-Columbian Ruins of Guatemala
Guatemala - Tikal
Tikal is a Mayan city located in the department of Petén.
The current
territory of Guatemala was part of Mesoamerica, one of the pre-Columbian
regions with the greatest cultural and demographic fertility on the continent,
and one of the cradles of human civilization.
In particular, the Olmec (1500 BC - 500 BC) and Maya (8000 BC-1697 AD) cultures prospered, of which numerous archaeological niches and buildings remain in Guatemala, such as Tikal, an entire Mayan city located in the department of Petén, or Uaxactún, in the same region, a city whose splendor took place around 900 AD
💖💖💖History of Guatemala
Guatemala
In 1944
Guatemala began a modernization process called the "Golden Age".
The history
of Guatemala begins with the Spanish invasion, once the Mexica Empire and its
neighboring cultures were defeated and absorbed by the Kingdom of Spain,
creating the first settlement in the territory of present-day Guatemala in
1524, called Santiago de Guatemala.
During this
colonial period, the Captaincy General of Guatemala was attached to the
Viceroyalty of New Spain, with capital in Mexico City.
Independence
from Spain took place in the 19th century and Guatemala joined the First
Mexican Empire that replaced the Viceroyalty, but which was extremely brief and
from which Guatemala and the rest of Central America would separate in 1823,
thus forming the United Provinces of the Center of America, later called the Federal
Republic of Central America.
This was
followed, as in many young American republics, by an internal struggle between
liberals and conservatives to define the fate of power, which resulted in
totalitarian governments and armed insurrections.
Finally, in
1944, Guatemala emerged from the dictatorship of General Ubico Castañeda and
began a process of modernization often called Guatemala's "Golden
Age", until tensions between pro-North American and communist interests
led to a confrontation between guerrillas from armed insurrection and
counterrevolutionary military governments, faced in a Civil War. Peace and
democracy would return in 1987.
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