Indigenous Age
This ancient empire was found along the western edge of South America, with its major city being named Cuzco
Incan
These four European nations established large empires of colonial territory in the Americas, name two of them
England/Britain, France, Spain, Portugal
This influential South American revolutionaries and freedom fighters helped to liberate Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, and Panama from Spanish rule
Simon Bolivar
Number 4 on the map
Brazil
South America's version of the Rockies, this mountain chain stretches down the western spine of the continent
Andes
The Aztec civilization founded the city of Tenochtitlan on Lake Texcoco. This is the city that occupies that land today
This Italian explorer was sponsored by Spain to voyage across the Atlantic, instead of finding India, he found an island in the Caribbean Sea and began a major era of European exploration in the Americas.
Christopher Columbus
Toussaint L'Ouverture was a former slave who helped lead a ten year war for freedom in this nation, which helped to spark independence movements throughout Latin America
Haiti
Number 2 on the map
Cuba
This nearly 50 year long period of tension between the USA and Soviet Union is known as the what?
Cold War
This civilization mysteriously abandoned their cities in the 10th century, though many of their descendants still live in the regions of southern Mexico as well as Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador
Mayan
Hernan Cortes and his men destroyed the Aztec empire in 1519 in part by murdering this Aztec king.
Moctezuma
Jose de San Martin was influential in the independence of these two nations (name either one)
Chile and Peru
Number 1 on the map
Venezuela
Name one of Canada's maritime provinces
New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland/Labrador
The most important crop for the Mayan civilization was called "maize", most of us know it by this name instead.
Corn
These were the names for plantations owned by the Spanish or the Church in Latin America
Haciendas
Mexico owes it's independence in large part to these two men, one who was executed in 1811 and another who picked up the fight and gained Mexico's independence in 1821
Miguel Hidalgo and Agustin de Iturbide
Number 6 on the map
Haiti
This American Poet described life in 20th Century Harlem in works such as "Mother to Son"
Langston Hughes
These water channels carved into stone terraces and bridges brought water from distant sources to irrigate Incan crops.
Acqueducts
The "Line of Demarcation", which divided South America between the Spanish and Portugese, was established in this treaty
Treaty of Tordeillas
Dolores
Number 8 on the map
Surinaime
This president took office upon the death of Franklin Roosevelt, saw the US through the end of WWII, and made the decision to drop two atomic bombs on Japan.
Harry Truman