South American Indian

Introduction
The people
The prehistoric period
- Early man
- The development of civilizations
- Traditional ways of life
  - Hunters and gatherers
  - Tropical-forest farming villages
  - Chiefdoms of the northern Andes and the circum-Caribbean
  - Central Andean irrigation civilizations
Evolution of contemporary cultures
- The European conquest
- Effects of colonialism
  - Peru
  - Chile
  - Panama

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