History of Nicaragua

Nicaragua is a nation in Central America. It is located about midway between Mexico and Colombia, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. Nicaragua ranges from the Caribbean Sea on the nation's east coast, and the Pacific Ocean bordering the west. Nicaragua also possesses a series of islands and cays located in the Caribbean Sea.
Nicaragua's name is derived from Nicarao, the name of the Nahuatl-speaking tribe which inhabited the shores of Lake Nicaragua before the Spanish conquest of the Americas, and the Spanish word agua, meaning water, due to the presence of the large Lake Cocibolca and Lake Managua , as well as lagoons and rivers in the region.
Pre-Columbian Nicaragua
The Nawa language group of people migrated from Central Mexico after 500 CE.
Mostthis area are related to Chibcha, spoken by groups in northern Colombia. Eastern Nicaragua's population consisted of extended families or tribes. Food was obtained by hunting, fishing, and slash-and-burn agriculture. Crops like cassava and pineapples were the staple foods. The people of eastern Nicaragua appear to have traded with and been influenced by the native peoples of the Caribbean, as round thatched huts and canoes, both typical of the Caribbean, were common in eastern Nicaragua.
When the Spanish arrived in western Nicaragua in the early 16th century, they found three principal tribes, each with a different culture and language: the Niquirano, the Chorotegano, and the Chontal. Each one of these diverse groups occupied much of Nicaragua territory, with independent chieftains who ruled according to each group's laws and customs. Their weapons consisted of swords, lances, and arrows made out of wood. Monarchy was the form of government of most tribes; the supreme ruler was the chief, or cacique, who, surrounded by his princes, formed the nobility. Laws and regulations were disseminated by royal messengers who visited each township and assembled the inhabitants to give their chief's orders.

[@carlosrios3215]

Yo nací en Nicaragua 🇳🇮 pero me criado en los EU desde los cuatro añitos. Un día me gustaría regresar y visitar.

[@carlosrios3215]

I appreciate this video. However I have a few constructive critiques:
The images on loop should have relevance to the information and not the same images on loop.
The information should be more chronological rather than sporadic.
Annunciation. For example: Guerillas ( Geh-ree-yas) and not Gorillas 🦍.
Again, thank you for this.

[@jonathanrodriguez9941]

Hello I'm native of Nicaragua.

[@gringoofficial2808]

Shut up

[@PeterGodmez]

@@gringoofficial2808 you are not official

[@user-ut1ir8os8k]

@@PeterGodmez real Nicaraguan here 🇳🇮

[@sergiojose2000]

@@gringoofficial2808 Nadie está hablando como para que lo callés😐

[@runlikehell4180]

take down the sandinista flag from the temple, ortega is a tyrant who wants to drive the natives of nicaragua off their land for profit!

[@Yme1022]

Why do they keep calling the natives of Nicaragua people Indians not from India

[@popeyemarino-ds8gh]

Hola soy mestizo español y indígeno de nicaragua 🇳🇮

[@KourtOreilly]

If you travel to Nicaragua now or in the past 30 years all you see is poverty. Children as young as 4-5 begging for food or money from visitors, in the streets of Nicaragua. Dogs are treated horribly; all you see is bones of animals wandering the streets of Nicaragua. It's truly heartbreaking to see children in the streets and homeless unemployed families in the streets. And it only continues to get worse. Back in the days when Kennedy was President of the US. Nicaragua had everything, just like the United States. The poverty there now is truly heartbreaking.

[@nikkimakropoulos]

There's a very strong case that the Nicarao (the largest Nahua tribe in Nicaragua) are descendants of the Toltecs. Mesoamerican scholars point to the Nicarao’s expertise in medicine (just like the Toltecs), the Nahuatl dialect the Nicarao spoke is the exact same the Toltec spoke, and there's religious and political similarities as well. In addition the timeframe of the Nicarao migrations in Nicaragua after the collapse of Tollan lines up almost perfectly, it is a very strong theory.
The sad part is that these discoveries are not well known because everything east and south of Copan, Honduras is rarely talked about in Mesoamerica. I find it sad because I've always found Nicaragua and Costa Rica's part in Mesoamerican history really interesting as they're both clearly tied to migrations from pre-Columbian civilizations in Mexico.

[@alexarodri4024]

Wow, I had no idea of the level of violence.

[@zodiac5578]

Thank you for copying wikipedia! I'm sure it was hard work!

[@lucysanchez98]

Nicaragua doesn’t come from "Nicarao" it comes from the Nahua kingdom called NicAnahuac, “Nicarao” doesn’t exist in the Nahuatl language, that name was a Spanish creation given to the King of NicAnahuac whose real name was Macuilmiquiztli which means "5 deaths" in Nahuatl. It’s also confirmed that NicAnahuac was a Pipil society; same language, ethnicity, religion, traditions, etc. Furthermore, historians know that the Pipils split on good terms as there was evidence of military alliances and trade networks between Cuscatlán and NicAnahuac.

[@Theesotericengineer-qs1jo]

que fastidio esa voz que pusieron de robot 😒

[@Yme1022]

I’m getting so mad 😡 cause this information is so white washed I’m from Nicaragua 🇳🇮 puerto cabezas

[@adminportal2691]

im a descendent from nicaragua, who was our ancient ancestors ? mayans ? aztecs ? nicaros ?

[@amyjoana8871]

@@adminportal2691 do an ancestry test, best way to find out. Im on the same boat