In �The Man and his History�, Gil Fortoul writes: �Guzm�n governed 18 years, either as President, either as one who inspired national politics, imitating with this the role that P�ez represented from 1830 to 1848�. D�az S�nchez states: �In his personality the most mysterious forces of history and geography are found�, when he wrote about Guzm�n Blanco. Of General G�mez, Siso Mart�nez writes in his History of Venezuela: �The G�mez autocracy that exists since 1908 up to December, 1935, constitutes the most dilated power concentrated in the hands of one man throughout our restless history, it is a consequence of a political and social evolution�. From the new edition of syntheses of world history congresses and different works and files of this nature, by Henry Berr, I have concluded: �History has begun because it is life, life is a continuing history. In reality, the past and the present are indissoluble�. �Man will never understand well his present but through his past, his past and then his present�. �The work of the historian is to unite more closely to the past, the future to the present; he should live from his time, he should remember and study the past in order to search a better and more fertile future�. ANNEX NO. 1 FIRST CYCLE SECOND CYCLE 1st� Great demographic fractionation wave. 2nd� Great demographic fractionation wave. 900 B.C. 17 Centuries later. 800 A.D. Power is in the hands of the sacerdotal aristocracy. Priests govern the cities.� The Autochthonous population is in a r�gime based on clientele r�gime.� Cultural inactivity.� Power is in the hands of the feudal aristocracy. Bishops are the ones who govern.� The population is under the serfdom r�gime.� Cultural inactivity.� From 900 to 500 B.C. 17 Centuries later. 800 to 1200 A.D. The clientele gradually improves its condition and goes on to constitute in its majority a middle class, a minority becomes rich with the development of commerce and industry and constitutes a new class: the rich aristocracy. The serfs of the soil gradually improve their condition and go on to constitute, in their majority, a middle class, a minority becomes rich with commerce and industry and constitutes a new class: the aristocracy of the rich. From 500 to 250 B.C. 17 Centuries later. 1200 to 1400 A.D. Power goes to the hands of the aristocracy of the rich or high bourgeoisie, and afterwards to the middle class or petit bourgeoisie (democracy). Power goes to the hands of the high bourgeoisie and forthwith, to the middle class (democracy). THE TWO IMPERIALIST WAVES