Slave Trade
Who were the first people enslaved by Europeans in Latin America.
The Indigenous People/Native Americans
What two languages were brought to Latin America from Europe?
Spanish and Portuguese
What language is spoken in nearly all of Latin America due to European influence?
Spanish
What was the Old World?
Europe
Brazil
What crop were slaves forced to cultivate in Latin America?
Sugarcane
Europeans killed 80 to 90 percent of the indigenous population with this.
Diseases
What language is spoken in Brazil due to European influence?
Portuguese
What was the New World?
The Americas
This is the biggest Spanish speaking country in Latin America.
Mexico
Where did the majority of African Slaves come from and what part of the world were they sent to?
Western Africa and Latin America
This is the biggest religion in Latin America due to European influence.
Roman Catholicism
What does the word Indigenous mean?
Native
What animal was crucial to the development of the Americas that came from Europe?
The Horse
This waterway connects the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean.
The Panama Canal
This route was used to transport slaves from Africa to the Americas.
The Middle Passage
This began with the arrival of Christopher Columbus in Latin America in 1492.
The Columbian Exchange
This is still a crop grown in Latin America due to its long history starting with the Columbian Exchange.
Sugarcane
This is the other name for the Columbian Exchange.
The Triangular Trade
This is the largest region of Latin America.
South America
This is the name of the process/TRADE of slaves being forcibly brought to America across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa.
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
How did Europeans change the course of human history.
By starting the Columbian exchange they caused the spread of diseases, different foods, wildlife, and cultures to spread worldwide.
Due to all the different national backgrounds Latin America has a very ______ population.
Diverse
What are 8 items brought from The Old World to the New World? (This can include foods, animals, and diseases)
Horses, Pigs, Cattle, Bananas, wheat, sugar, oats, onions, rice, lemons, limes, oranges, grapes, coffee, the flu, smallpox, and the measles
This is the region of Latin America Christopher Columbus landed in.
The Caribbean