Before the Spanish colonization period indiginous tribes such as the Cuevas and Cocle occupied Panama. Cities and evolved cultures were not developed like the Incas did and there was an population estimate of 200,000-2 million before the arrivial of the Spanish. The arrivial led to a decline in population of the tribes with individuals dying from conflict with the Spanarids, diseases, and fleeing away.
I wanted to give a brief summery of the indiginous tribes because I am going to dicuss more about the topic in my research project.
In 1501 Rodrigo de Bastidas from Triana, Seville, Spain was the first to set foot in eastern Panama on his journey in trying to find gold. Bastidas discovery led to conquests of Panama and the Isthmus of Panama was now in the eye of expeditioners. 10 years later in 1513 Vasco Nunez de Balboa decided that he was going to find a route in the Isthmus of Panama because he heard of of the Pacific Ocean and vast amounts of gold being located there and successfully explored the Isthmus. Balboa ended up claiming the Pacific Coast for Spain and connected the Pacific ocean with the Caribbean Sea which held importance as those two waters now being known as the bridge of world and gold transportation was used in the Isthmus.
The idea of a canal is nothing new with King Charles I of Spain in the 16th century trying to build a canal but his team deemed it as impossible and ultimately in 1880 France began the construction. The Panama canal was going to connect the two bodies of water of the Atlantic with the Pacific Ocean across the Isthmus of Panama but complications arose with high mortality rates with workers debt so the US bought the project in 1903. The US purchased the canal for $40 million and in 1910 it was finally completed.
These 3 topics are going to be in my research project which is why I gave brief summaries about them and will go more in depth along the way. I am also going to write about their independence, their culture, population, more in depth information about the history and etc.
Vacationtopanama.com. n.d. History Of Panama: Overview & Highlights. [online] Available at: <https://www.vacationtopanama.com/travel-guide/history-of-panama/>
Frommers.com. n.d. History In Panama | Frommer's. [online] Available at: <https://www.frommers.com/destinations/panama/in-depth/history> [Accessed 22 September 2020].
I love how in depth you went into this blog post,especially about the original natives who lived there before the Spanish colonization. I think you could have put in a few more pictures like maybe some illustrations of those people,but overall it was very good.
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