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The History of North America encompasses the past developments of people populating the continent of North America. While it was commonly accepted that the continent first became inhabited by humans when individuals migrated across the Bering Sea 40,000 to 17,000 years ago, [ 1 ] more recent discoveries may have pushed those estimates back at ...
The Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819, [62] also known as the Transcontinental Treaty of 1819, settled a border dispute in North America between the United States and Spain. The treaty was the result of increasing tensions between the U.S. and Spain regarding territorial rights at a time of weakened Spanish power in the New World .
A map of North America's physical, political, and population characteristics as of 2018. North America is a continent [b] in the Northern and Western Hemispheres. [c] North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea, and to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean.
The ancestors of today's American Indigenous peoples were the Paleo-Indians; they were hunter-gatherers who migrated into North America. The most popular theory asserts that migrants came to the Americas via Beringia , the land mass now covered by the ocean waters of the Bering Strait .
A second attempt was made and lasted from October to November 1852, when El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua created a Federation of Central America (Federacion de Centro America). Guatemalan President Justo Rufino Barrios attempted to reunite the nation by force of arms in the 1880s and was killed in the process, like his 1842 predecessor.
Nicaragua is a nation in Central America.It is located about midway between Mexico and Colombia, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. Nicaragua ranges from the Caribbean Sea on the nation's east coast, and the Pacific Ocean bordering the west.
An enlargeable topographic map of Nicaragua. Geography of Nicaragua. Nicaragua is: a country; Location: Northern Hemisphere and Western Hemisphere. Americas. North America. Middle America. Central America; Time zone: Central Standard Time ; Extreme points of Nicaragua High: Mogoton 2,107 m (6,913 ft) Low: North Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea 0 m
A Brief History of Argentina (2011) Brown, Jonathan C. A Socioeconomic History of Argentina, 1776–1869. New York: Cambridge University Press 1979. Buera, Francisco J., and Juan Pablo Nicolini. "The Monetary and Fiscal History of Argentina: 1960-2017." (University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper, 2019).