WE ARE NOT 20%Persian/Turkish/ Caucasus I WOULD SYA THIS IS FROM HIS MOTHERS SIDE About Native South American Ethnicity(Continue here) Modern Day Location Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Columbia, Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Ecuador, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Trinidad, Tobago Did You Know? Venezuela has one of the highest waterfalls in the world, called Santo del Angel (Angel Falls). About Your Region You have ancestry from Native South America, an impressive and diverse stretch of land that includes the towering Andes mountain range, the lush Amazon rainforests, the arid Atacama Desert and the vibrant beaches of Brazil. North and South America were the last continents in the world to be populated by humans. 20,000 years ago, thanks to low sea levels, the indigenous Americans were able to cross a land bridge from northern Asia via the Bering Strait and eventually make their way down the continent by land and boat. South America was historically home to Amazonian hunter-gatherers, pastoralists living off vicuna and alpaca herds and dense urban areas sustained by agriculture. The largest and most powerful civilization of this pre-Columbia era was the Inca Empire, which controlled millions of people at its height, requiring military service and labor from it citizens. Mythical tales of lost Inca gold created a greater mystique about this civilization to this day. The Spanish and Portuguese monarchs initiated expeditions into this region beginning in the 15th century. Infamous Portuguese explorers like Cabral, and Spanish conquistadors like Francisco Pizarro gradually conquered the native population, capturing the Emporer of the Incan Empire, and eventually taking control over the great Andes region. The Treaty of Tordesillas divided the continent between Spain and Portugal with Brazil under Portuguese rule. In the 19th century, visionaries, and influential political leaders such as Simón Bolívar, played a key role in breaking free from the Spanish Empire and continued to lead Spanish-America nations—Bolivia, Columbia, Venezuela and Ecuador—to independence. Substantial regions of South America, such as the highlands along the western coast (like in Peru and Bolivia), are elevated thousands of feet above sea level. Continuous settlement of these high altitude regions above 7,500 feet by humans necessitated biological adaptations to prevent hypoxia due to low oxygen levels. Migrations into this region The Americas were initially occupied about 15,000 years ago from people living in Siberia and coastal north Asia. A small number of travelers crossed the Bering Land Bridge probably far fewer than 1,000 individuals, likely tracking animal herds, and discovered an expansive new territory. Most Native Americans appear to derive from this initial wave of migration. These groups were dramatically successful and in only a few thousand years occupied virtually the entire landmass. Mounting evidence suggests that there was a rapid dispersal along the western coast of the Americas, perhaps by boat, over only 1,000 years. Not long after humans first appeared in Alaska and the western U.S., they had already settled as far south as the tip of Chile. Migrations from this region None.
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