The History of PanamaBloomsbury Academic, 2006 M05 30 - 153 páginas As the narrowest stretch of land in the Central American isthmus, Panama's geographical location has for millenia made it the crossroads for traders, travelers, European pirates, and world superpowers. Panamanian history is replete with explicit or tacit domination by others. In the post-Columbus period, Panama was first a Spanich colony, then a province of Colombia, and then finally a quasi-territory of the United States during the 20th century. Suffering invasion by the United States in 1989 to oust dictator Manuel Noriega and then receiving full ownership of the Panama Canal at the end of 1999, Panama has rebuilt itself into a strong, if contentious democracy. |
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... became the springboard for the in- vasion and conquest of the Incan Empire in Peru led by Francisco Pizarro . The vast wealth generated by these incursions was carried overland in Panama along the Camino Real ( Royal Road ) from the ...
... became the cause of its decline . By the beginning of the 1700s South Amer- ica's gold and silver mines were beginning to be exhausted , and Panama's privileged trading position waned accordingly . Other factors also contrib- uted to ...
... became known as the " Isthmus Guard , " which developed into Pan- ama's first intelligence and law enforcement agency . Composed of Amer- icans and supplemented by Mexicans , Chileans , and Peruvians , but no Panamanians , the Isthmus ...
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Panama Is a Canal and More | 1 |
Colonial Panama to Independence | 11 |
Completing the Canal to World War II | 27 |
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