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History of Peru in maps
Peru as it appears in 5 interactive history atlases, from 1750 to 2015: Peru. Each era below lists who ruled the land and when control changed, linked to the dated map that shows it.
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What was Peru before it was Peru? Below, every era of this land in the Maps of History atlases — who ruled it, what it was called, and when control changed — each line linked to the dated map that shows it. Modern borders stand in as an honest approximation; every atlas says so on the map itself.
Peru · Industrial Revolution
| Colony or dependency — the opening position | |
| Agrarian economy |
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Peru · Age of Revolutions
The empire’s last bastion: viceroys ruled from Lima while juntas rose everywhere else, its elite fearing Andean revolt more than Spanish rule — the great Túpac Amaru rising (1780–83, ~100,000 dead) was the age’s forgotten precursor. Liberation had to be imported: San Martín by sea (1821), Bolívar and Sucre by land, until Ayacucho (1824) ended Spain’s mainland empire on Peruvian ground.
| Colonial possessions — the opening position | |
| Republics & revolutionary states |
AGE OF REVOLUTIONS: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Peru · WWI
Peru · Cold War
| US-aligned states — the opening position |
COLD WAR: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Peru · Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution
| Refused: women excluded; ERA never ratified — the opening position | |
| Right won in law | |
| No reform yet / outside this story | |
| Right won in law |
FEMINISM AND THE TUNISIAN REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
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