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This man made structure has shortened the time it takes to travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What is the Panama Canal?
Least populated Central American country
What is Belize?
The biggest port in Mexico.
What is Veracruz?
The two countries that share the island of Hispaniola.
What are Haiti and the Dominican Republic?
The southern most state in Mexico.
What is Chiapas?
The Communist Party in Nicaragua.
Who were the Sandinistas?
The largest country in Central America.
What is Nicaragua?
Popular tourist resort in eastern Mexico
What is Cancún?
The Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and Lesser Antilles combine to form this area.
What is the West Indies?
The man who conquered the Aztecs.
Who was Hernando Cortes?
He formed the first Communist government in the Western Hemisphere
Who was Fidel Castro?
Almost one-third of this country's population is protestant.
What is Guatemala?
The largest group in Mexico that do not speak Spanish.
Who are the Tarascans?
A notorious haven for pirates
What was Jamaica?
The status of Puerto Rico as of 1951
What is an American commonwealth?
People of mixed Spanish and Indian ancestry
What are mestizos?
First known country to grow coffee
What is Costa Rica?
A pyramid where Mayans performed pagan bloody rituals.
What was Chichen Itza?
Country where citizens speak French and Creole
What is Haiti?
The largest city in Central America
What is Guatemala City?
The Europeans introduced a new kind of farming to Central America called ___.
What was a plantation economy?
The country that has had to deal with several juntas seizing power.
What is El Salvador?
The reason why the Mayans are the most famous of the Indian civilizations.
What is because they left written records?
Spain lost Cuba thanks to this war
What was the Spanish-American War?
Most famous Leeward Islands
What are the Virgin Islands?