The first of three maps “visualizing the progress of President-Elect Herbert Hoover around South America appears this ... Quinine and cocaine are old Peruvian exports; and cotton grown on ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The only surviving copy of the 500-year-old map that first ... the 1507 Waldseemuller map, and flags marking territorial claims in South America suggest Portugal controls ...

“It is a map of South America and a part of Central ... aspirations in what was (under the century old Monroe doctrine) still considered “America’s backyard”—had its intended effect.

After an unprecedented five-year tour of South America ... of his time in Spanish America, but these books were so full of facts, figures, illustrations and maps they would change how Europeans ...

A copy of a rare 16th century map known as "the ... to form a picture of America. The boomerang shape of the continent he drew is nothing like the North and South America shapes we know today.

With information on capitals, years of independence, political developments, and other details on each country, the map below features the array of life that is South America.