HISTORY
THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM
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It was made up of local strongmen with private armies.
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It was divided between liberals and conservatives.
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It was made up of former military leaders who ruled as dictators.
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It wished to share ruling power with the lower-class people.
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Detailed explanation-1: -How was Latin America’s ruling elite similar to Europe’s ruling class? It was made up of local strongmen with private armies. It was divided between liberals and conservatives. It was made up of former military leaders who ruled as dictators.
Detailed explanation-2: -Struggles among these classes played an important part in the revolutions. At the top of Latin American society were the peninsulares, people who had been born in Spain or Portugal. They held the most important positions in colonial government and in the Roman Catholic Church.
Detailed explanation-3: -Which fact most supports the view of some Latin Americans that the Panama Canal was an example of “Yankee imperialism"? Panama did not completely control the canal until the year 2000.
Detailed explanation-4: -Colonizers Decimated Indigenous Populations That’s just around Mexico City. Native populations on Cuba and Hispaniola were all but wiped out, and every Indigenous population in the New World suffered some loss. Although the bloody conquest took its toll, the main culprits were diseases like smallpox.