Latin America - Pre-conquest indigenous cultures (part 2)
Part 2 : South America
The Inca Empire:
The Inca Empire was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The empire situated in modern day Peru, and the civilization arose from the highlands of Peru as early as the 13th century.
The Carib people
The Carib people include carib, island carib and kalinago people. They are a group of people who lived around the lesser Antilles islands. Their origin lies in the southern West Indies and the northern coast of South America.In the southern Caribbean, they co-existed with the Galibi, a related Cariban speaking group.
Carib family (by John Gabriel Stedman)
The Arawak
The Arawak were the first encountered natives for Christopher Columbus as he arrived in Americas in 1492. They were described by the Spanish as peaceful primitive people. The Arawak include Taino, Guadeloupe, the Great Antilles and Bahamas, together with related groups which lived along the eastern coast of South America.
A 17th-century drawing of Taino Arawak musicians in Hispaniola.
Assembly of Arawaks at Mahaiconi, from Indian Tribes of Guiana W. H. Brett (1844).
The Araucanian People
The Araucanian, also known as the Mapuche are a group of native people living in south-central Chile and south western Argentina. They are composed by a wide ranging ethnicity groups who shared a common social, religious and economical structure.
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