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Before European colonization two main indigenous American groups and numerous nomadic tribes peopled the region that is now Argentina, constituting a population of some 300,000. Both groups—the Diaguita people in the northwest, and the Guarani people in the south and east—created the basis for a permanent agricultural civilization. The Diaguita also prevented the powerful Inca from expanding their empire from Bolivia into Argentina.
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Bethell, L. (ed.) Argentina since Independence. 1994
Levitsky, Steven, Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness. 2006
Pion-Berlin, David, Broken Promises? The Argentine Crisis and Argentine Democracy. 2006
Powers, Nancy R., Grassroots Expectations of Democracy and Economy: Argentina in Comparative Perspective. 2001
Romero, Luis Alberto, A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century; translated from Spanish. 2002
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Turner, B. (2012). Argentina. In: Turner, B. (eds) The Statesman’s Yearbook. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-59541-9_166
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