Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Panama


It is absolutely impossible for me to teach a lesson about the Panama Canal without this awesome song going through my head. The band is Van Halen, the song "Panama."




Key things to remember about Panama:
  1. it was once part of Columbia
  2. the United States supported a takeover of the local government so they could get a favorable deal to dig the Panama Canal
  3. the digging of the canal cost 30,000 lives and $600 million
  4. the canal was dug through the Isthmus of Panama and connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

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