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[https://news.ncsu.edu/2011/09/cost-of-silver-one/ by Matt Shipman 27/9/11 NC STATE UNIVERSITY] | [https://news.ncsu.edu/2011/09/cost-of-silver-one/ by Matt Shipman 27/9/11 NC STATE UNIVERSITY] | ||
The mining cities of Huancavelica, Peru, and Potosi, Bolivia, once the pride of the Spanish empire, are now among the most mercury-contaminated urban areas in the world. We are only now beginning to understand the impact that the quicksilver-laced soils of these cities has on their populations today. But to truly grasp the problem, you need to understand how they got this way. | The mining cities of Huancavelica, Peru, and Potosi, Bolivia, once the pride of the Spanish empire, are now among the most mercury-contaminated urban areas in the world. We are only now beginning to understand the impact that the quicksilver-laced soils of these cities has on their populations today. But to truly grasp the problem, you need to understand how they got this way. | ||
=====Spanish conquest of the Maya===== | |||
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_the_Maya by WIKIPEDIA] | |||
The Spanish conquest of the Maya was a protracted conflict during the Spanish colonisation of the Americas, in which the Spanish conquistadores and their allies gradually incorporated the territory of the Late Postclassic Maya states and polities into the colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain. The Maya occupied the Maya Region, an area that is now part of the modern countries of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and El Salvador; the conquest began in the early 16th century and is generally considered to have ended in 1697. | |||
