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What is Canada?
Guatemala City is the capital of this country.
What is Guatemala?
This is the most common language spoken throughout Central America.
What is Spanish?
Español
The primary languages of this country are French and Haitian Creole.
What is Haiti?
The Aztec civilization stretched across what is now this country.
What is Mexico?
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What is Mexico?
This is the capital of a country founded in 1776.
What is Washington D.C.?
A country in Central America that begins with an H, N, E or B.
What is Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador or Belize?
This is the official language of the island of Jamaica.
What is English?
Name a current US state whose name comes from a people indigenous to it.
What is Alabama (Choctaw), Alaska (Aleut), Arizona (O’odham), Arkansas (Illinois), Connecticut (Algonquian), Hawaii (from the indigenous language of Hawai’i), Idaho (Apache), Illinois (Algonquian language group, probably Miami), Iowa (Dakota), Kansas (Kansas), Kentucky (Seneca), Massachusetts (Narragansett), Michigan (Ottawa), Minnesota (Dakota), Mississippi (Ojibwe), Missouri (Missouri), Nebraska (Chiwere), New Mexico (Nahuatl), North and South Dakota (Dakota), Ohio (Seneca), Oklahoma (Choctaw), Tennessee (Cherokee), Texas (Caddo), Utah (Apache), Wisconsin (Miami), or Wyoming (Lenape)?
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What is Greenland?
(Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark.)
San Salvador is the capital of this country.
What is El Salvador?
This Central American country is famous for the canal that runs through it, allowing ships to pass from the Caribbean to the Pacific ocean.
What is Panama?
[Tolls collected on the Panama Canal drive one-third of Panama’s economy.]
Haiti was the first Caribbean nation to gain independence from European powers after colonization. Which colonial (European) power did it gain independence from?
What is France?
This ancient civilization existed in what is now Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and parts of Honduras.
What is Mayan (Mayan civilization)?
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What is Cuba?
This is the capital of Cuba.
What is Havana?
In 1840 this Central American country became a British colony. It achieved its independence from the United Kingdom on the 21st of September 1981.
What is Belize?
This island in the Caribbean is a United States territory.
What is the U.S. Virgin Islands or Puerto Rico?
The Lakota Nation and its tribes live in (and used to control most of the territory of) this state in the United States.
What is North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Minnesota, or Nebraska?
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What is Panama?
Santo Domingo is the capital of this country.
What is the Dominican Republic?
Write down a list of as many countries as you can that are part of Central America. (Note: Mexico is not considered part of Central America.) The person with the longest correct list wins.
Countries in Central America:
Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Belize
The majority ethnic group here is Indian due to the island's history of British colonizers using indentured laborers from East India.
What is Trinidad? (or Trinidad and Tobago)
The Taíno were an indigenous people from this part of North America. (And their descendants live there.)
[Taino people are considered a subgroup of the Arawak peoples]
What is the Caribbean? (or specifically: the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, or Puerto Rico)