Cultural differences and similarities- Columbia and the United States

p Reading Header : CULTURAL DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES- COLUMBIA AND THE

UNITED STATES

Your institution

your name

Course name

Course instructor

March 14 , 2009

Geographically Columbia is bed by five countries Venezuela and Brazil on eastern side , Panama at the Northwest , while at the southwest we have Peru and Ecuador

There is very little that is known about the Indian tribes that used to inhibit Columbia before the arrival of the Spanish . The Spaniards established their first permanent European settlement which they named Darien in 1950 . It was

in 1938 that they established the colony of new Canada which was the name of the area up to 1861 . Simon Bolivar 's Venezuelan troops after struggling for 14 years finally won the battle in Aug . 7 , 1819 , followed by independence in 1824 . Bolivar United Columbia , Panama , Venezuela , and Ecuador were to form the then Republic of Greater Columbia from 1819-1830 but Venezuela and Ecuador was lost to separatist . There were two political parties that dominated the region Conservatives and the Liberals . There were times of liberal dominance (1849-1857 and 1861-1880 , which had the aim of disestablishing the Roman Catholic Church and were marked with insurrection . United States of Greneda was the country 's name in the 1861 , becoming the United States of Columbia in 1963 and in 1885 so the Republic of Columbia came to existence . There was a brutal civil war that broke out in the 1899 to 1902 and the year that followed the Republic lost its claims to Panama on...