Latin America

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Latin America
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Maya, Aztec and Inca Empires circa 1450 AD
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Maya (appx. 1000 BC-1450 AD)
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Mayan ruins, Guatemala
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Inca Empire
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Machu Picchu
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Incan Indians, Bolivia
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Aztec Empire, 14th-16th centuries, AD
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Tenochtitlan (Aztec capital)
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Law of the Indies (San Antonio, TX)
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Zocalo (Plaza of the Constitution, Mexico City
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Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
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Le Corbusier (1887-1965)
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Corbusiers Contemporary City for Three Million
Inhabitants (1922)
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Piloto Plan, Brazil
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Brasilia
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Brasilia
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Brasilia
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Plaza of the Three Powers
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Amazon Highway
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Amazon deforestation
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Cubatao, Brazil
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Curitiba, Brazil
Bus stop
Free Environmental University
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Patagonian shield
Glacial lake, Chile
penguin
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Amazon rain forest
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Lima, Peru
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Periferico
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Rio de Janeiro
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Favelas, Rio
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Hacienda, Peru
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Chunchucmil Hacienda, Mexico
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Slaves on a plantation, Brazil
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Cattle ranch, Brazil
Cattle ranching is the leading cause of
deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. This has
been the case since at least the 1970s
government figures attributed 38 of
deforestation from 1966-1975 to large scale
cattle ranching. However, today the situation may
be even worse. According to the Center for
International Forestry Research (CIFOR), "Between
1990 and 2001 the percentage of Europe's
processed meat imports that came from Brazil rose
from 40 to 74 percent" and by 2003 "For the first
time ever, the growth in Brazilian cattle
production-80 percent of which was in the
Amazon-was largely export driven."
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Copper mine, Peru
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World Bank Headquarters, Washington DC
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Maquiladora
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Squatter settlement, Tijuana
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MERCOSUR (1991)
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DR-CAFTA