Latin & South American

The terms “Old World” and “New World” have been used to conceptualize the global landscape since Columbus “discovered” the Americas. Are they still valid today?

The Inca administered a vast empire of 12 million people without horses or wheeled vehicles. How? Fleet-footed runners called chasquis.

Gunned down in 1980 as El Salvador’s 12-year civil war began, Óscar Romero is Latin America’s most famous martyr. Who was he, and what did he stand for?

In Mesoamerica, time and calendars were sacred, connecting the divine, nature, and humanity, guiding both daily life as well as rituals, and legitimizing power.

The conquest of the New World forever changed history. But for a brief moment, it could have gone an entirely different way.

The world’s largest rainforest was long considered a virgin wilderness, but recent discoveries are challenging this view.

The nature-centered cultures that flourished in Brazil before colonization are reflected in the religious practices, myths, and cosmological perspectives found throughout the territory today.

The arrival of European colonizers in the Americas had significant biological and cultural consequences stemming from the interchange of goods, ideas, diseases, crops, and humans themselves.