Geography
What is the name of the body of water that surrounds Puerto Rico, Haiti, and Cuba
The Caribbean?
What percent of the indigenous American population was killed by disease?
90%
What language do they speak in most of Latin America?
Spanish
How has political instability impacted many Latin American countries' people?
made life difficult for average people
What is the largest river and rainforest in South America?
What country colonized French Guiana?
France
What language do they speak in Brazil?
Portugese
Who were the SECOND round of people in the Americas to be enslaved by European colonists?
kidnapped African people
What is the largest country in area and population in South America?
Brazil
What country colonized Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, and Peru?
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What is the southern country in North America?
Panama
gold, silver, oil, trees
What country colonized Brazil?
Portugal
What language do they speak in Haiti?
Creole
What is the large mountain range on the western edge of South America
The Andes
What are two oceans on each side of Colombia, Costa Rica, and Mexico?
Pacific and Atlantic Ocean
What country colonized Guyana and Suriname?
The Dutch
What is a banana republic?
Small, poor countries that are politically unstable and dependent on exporting crops
What was the most prominent crop, grown on 70% of all plantations, through slave labor?
Sugarcane