Maps
Ancient Civilizations
Revolutions
Independence
Important People
100
This country is located next to the United States.
What is Mexico.
100
This civilization was conquered by Hernan Cortez.
Who are the Aztecs?
100
This revolution was led by Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata.
What is the Mexican Revolution.
100
These laws gave power to the Peninsulares in Latin America.
What are the Bourbon Laws?
100
This American filibuster became President of Nicaragua.
Who is William Walker?
200
This country is located in Central America between El Salvador and Costa Rica.
What is Nicaragua.
200
This conquistador followed the same blueprint as Cortez when he conquered the Incans.
Who is Francisco Pizzaro?
200
Che Guevara was a guerrilla in this armed revolution.
What is the Cuban Revolution.
200
This religious figure was used as a rallying cry for Miguel Hidalgo in Mexico's war of independence.
Who is the Virgin of Guadalupe.
200
This dictator in Nicaragua was overthrown by the Sandinistas.
Who is Somoza?
300
This country is at the top of South America between Venezuela and Ecuador.
What is Colombia.
300
The Mayan civilization was organized into these.
What is Mayan City-States?
300
This philosophy was the foundation of the Sandinista Revolution.
What is liberation theology?
300
After the French Revolution this Haitian leader led a slave revolt that scared slave owners across the world.
Who is Toussasaint L'Overture?
300
This man was democratically elected in Guatemala, and then overthrown by a CIA sponsored coup.
Who is Jacobo Arbenz?
400
This is the largest country in all of Latin America.
What is Brazil.
400
Because of the death of his father, this leader was weak when Pizzaro came to the area.
Who is Atahualpa?
400
The CIA overthrew a democratically elected Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala to save this organization.
What is the United Fruit Company?
400
This leader of Spain did not produce any heirs (children), which led to Napoleon's invasion and the rise of the House of Bourbons.
Who is Charles the II?
400
This Portuguese explorer "discovered" Brazil?
Who is Pedro Cabral?
500
This country used to be part of Colombia, but is located in Central America today.
What is Panama.
500
Factionalism in the Inkan system resulted in this outcome.
What is Pizzaro's overthrow of the civilization?
500
The indigenous people of Southern Mexico followed this leader during the Mexican Revolution.
Who is Emiliano Zapata?
500
This Creole leader is known as the liberator.
Who is Simon Bolivar?
500
This revolutionary leader believed that poverty in Latin America was the result of an imperialistic system.
Who is Che Guevara?
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