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This is the world's longest mountain chain.
What are the Andes Mountains?
In Latin America, Spanish and Portuguese are the most common spoken languages, and Catholicism is the most popular religion because of this.
What is cultural diffusion?
This Mexican civilization introduced irrigation and discovered chocolate.
Who were the Aztecs?
These brothers have had great power in Cuba since 1961.
Who are Fidel and Raul Castro?
A bottle of this carbonated drink costs $1.80 in the U.S., but it typically costs less than $1.00 throughout major Latin American countries.
What is Coca-Cola?
This covers a large part of northern Brazil.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
This Mexican celebration honors the dead.
What is Dia de los Muertos?
This complex society of people lived in ancient Peru in the Andes Mountains and conquered lands.
Who were the Incas?
Leaders gaining unexplained wealth, drug trafficking, and money laundering are examples of this.
What is government corruption or abuse of power?
Most Latin American countries are considered this level of economic development.
What is Level 2?
This physical feature is shared by the United States and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande River?
These churches are an example of how the Catholic religion was spread through European Colonization.
What are Gothic cathedrals?
This method of farming where "steps" are built onto the slopes of hills and mountains to be used for crop cultivation.
What is terrace farming?
This Latin American country is a communist government.
What is Cuba?
This keeps world trade running smoothly by connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
This natural feature is almost 4000 miles long.
What is the Amazon River?
This artist created paintings that reflected Mexican culture and European surrealism.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
This ancient culture developed hieroglyphics and developed a calendar system of 365 days.
Who were the Mayans?
The practice of explorers conquering political control over a country and occupying it with settlers.
What is European colonization?
This highway system in South America runs along the west coast making trade faster and easier.
What is the Pan-American Highway?
This is the capital of Brazil.
What is Rio de Janeiro?
This statue in Brazil is a symbol of Christianity around the world.
What is Christ the Redeemer?
This European country conquered much of Latin America during the 1500's and later granted their independence in the 1800's.
What is Spain?
A type of government and economic system where people do not own land, factories, or machinery; everyone is supposed to share the wealth they create.
What is communism?
Agriculture, mining, and forestry have been important industries for centuries in this large country in South America.
What is Brazil?