Historical themes of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Garcia MárquezGarcia Márquez said that "One Hundred Years of Solitude is not a history of Latin America, it is a metaphor for Latin America" ​​(Dreifus 1983:1974). Historical themes include conquest and colonization, settlement and scientific discovery, civil wars, foreign economic intervention, technological change, and ultimately the decay and disappearance of a long-established way of life. The original Spanish conquest is alluded to when, in the first chapter, José Arcadio Buendia finds ancient armor and the remains of a galleon, mysteriously stranded several kilometers from the sea. The second chapter talks about the first Spanish colonization and the devastating pirate raids of the English sailor Sir Francis Drake. There will be no further discussion of this topic thereafter. The pioneer settlement is the true beginning of Macondo's history. At first it is «a village of twenty mud and reed houses on the bank of a diaphanous river... The world was so new, many things had no name, and to name them you had to point a finger. " (71) That's right: when true pioneer families built their first rude homes in the forests of the Americas, they found many things - plants, animals, minerals - that they had never seen before and for which they had no names. This was one of the reasons why Europeans called the lands of the Western Hemisphere the New World Typical of these villages, which arose on the banks of rivers throughout the Spanish territories, Macondo is governed by its founder, José Arcadio Buendia, as a kind of village chief; Ursula, his wife, cultivates a small plot of land and the men, apparently, also go hunting for food (although the hunting is not... middle of paper... very quickly. In the story real, this is the period of global economic depression, which began in 1929 and lasted a decade, until the beginning of the Second World War. Then, in the last chapter, when the last Aureliano finally leaves the house that was his prison , we feel like we're in a new kind of Macondo. There are more people around, including many who are quite different from those we have met before and seem strangers to the old families of Macondo. What kind of city is this that has an eccentric Catalan merchant on rare occasions? books frequented by a group of enthusiastic young writers? The city also has a pharmacy, which we have never heard of before, frequented by a girl with Egyptian eyes named Mercedes. It also has some new and kinky brothels. Works Cited: Garcia Marquez,. Gabriel. One hundred years of solitude. Trans. Gregory Rabassa New York: Harper Perennial, 1991.