The Eusébio de Queirós Law (Law No. 581), enacted on September 4, 1850, prohibited the slave trade. The law was drafted by the Minister of Justice, Eusébio de Queirós Coutinho Matoso da Câmara (1812-1868), during the Second Reign. It was the first of three laws that would gradually abolish slavery
The Treaty of Tordesillas was an agreement between the kingdom of Portugal and the kingdom of Castile, celebrated on June 7, 1494, in the city of Tordesillas (Spain). By this treaty, Castilians and Portuguese divided the new world, through a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde Archipelago,
By:Eddy Romero Meza It has not been fully noticed how the educational reform of the 90s affected the already deficient teaching of history. The devalued public education inherited from the 1980s has undergone a change, not necessarily for the better. The change from a subject-based curriculum to on
THE NEWS (“EL COMERCIO”, JUNE 29, 2009) The sacred city of Caral was declared a Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO and with it something that we already knew in the land of the red and white flag was made official, something that made our chests swell with pride:in Peru, brilliantly the oldest