THE WHOLE HISTORY OF BOLIVIA
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Welcome to Countries Facts so today in this Article I will show you the whole history of Bolivia now let's flip through its history shall we the earliest inhabitants of Bolivia settled high up on the Altiplano plateau which became the site for the civilization of Tiwanaku the Americans were masterful architects agriculturalists and builders here we see the gateway of the Sun unfortunately they also practiced human sacrifice where people were executed on top a structure called an acappella and then ritually dismembered for the public to see no one certain why to Allah who collapsed but it did and there was thus no one to stop the Inca empires conquest of much of Bolivia which began in the 1400s under the great leader Petra guty Bolivians at this time Spoke Amara but the Inka imposed Quechua administrators over them both these languages are still widely spoken in Bolivia today along with Spanish that's right the conquistadors arrived here in the 1500s and promptly assumed command after defeating the Inca the Amerindians of Bolivia were forced to work in silver mines like potosà and Cochabamba stripping the lustrous metal from the bowels of mountains like this of course the Indians rebelled most famously in the late 18th century when many natives of Bolivia joined the rebellion of peruvian tupac amaru a heroic and hard-fought effort but unsuccessful still Spain's grip of its colonies was weakening faltering fatally in the early 1800s after Napoleon's conquest of Spain which emboldened its colonies to revolt you could say the Spanish Empire was blown apart by a Bonaparte Bolivian cities were among the first to rebel and soon the Americas were ablaze with revolutionary fervor following the lead of men like Simone Bolivar from whom Bolivia derives its name Bolivia which became an independent nation in 1825 now over the centuries Bolivia had been mined so extensively that by this time most mines were depleted and thus Bolivia whose economy had been grounded in them suffered greatly enter Marshall and the Resta Santa Cruz who as president pushed policies and reforms to ameliorate the country's ills but got a bit greedy in wanting to rule Peru to which he did for a while but this stoked up resentment and Bolivia became enmeshed in manifold brawls with its neighbors ultimately losing more than half its land including the bit that joined it to the sea after losing a war with Chile a country that definitely needed coastline even more humiliating was Bolivia's defeat by Paraguay in the Chaco War social and political chaos escalated this president for instance was killed by an angry crowd who stormed his palace and hanged his body from a lamppost Bolivia's shaky uncertain political climate did not change junta then this guy more junta then more unstable regimes wrecking their brains how to grow the economy while cutting a few tin mine jobs while not increasing wages while not angering labor unions which was impossible Bolivia's various conundrums couldn't be solved even when civilians regained government leadership in the 1980s protests and general societal agitation persisted populist Evo Morales has proved a radical and energetic leader and the economy has been growing as has tourism and there's a lot to see here what does the future hold for Bolivia comment below but for now bye bye.
