Ancient civilizations formed what Latin America is today. Their original pagan beliefs were combined with the new ideas that came with the Spanish conquest, creating a unique form of Christianity. The merging of rites, values and customs is what made of Native Americans a unique phenomenon that has been widely studied by anthropologists, historians and archeologists. Prehistoric and tribal people believed that the universe was composed of the heavens, the earth~{!/~}s surface and the …showed first 75 words of 735 total…

…showed last 75 words of 735 total…I catch myself thinking how would life be now in America if it had not been conquered by the Europeans more than five hundred years ago. Things would be certainly different; the genocide committed against Native Americans would have never occurred and great civilizations with brilliant cultures would still be practicing their rites and traditions. Maybe they could have been the ones that conquered Europe, and only then history could have been reversed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**