Geography
Easy world-wide trade.
New foods were brought to both Europe and Latin America in the_____.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Was made up of Native Americans (indigenous people) rising up against the Mexican government.
What was the Zapatista Guerrilla Movement?
The enslavement and forced transportation of 12-15 million black Africans to the Americas between the 15th and 19th centuries.
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
Brazil's literacy Rate.
What is 90.4%?
Most of the land is not arable .
African slavery was very important to the development of South America because it helped what grow.
What are sugarcane plantation economies?
In Cuba, the President (dictator) is elected by.....
What is the Unicameral National Assembly?
The movement of peoples, agricultural commodities, diseases, and cultures between the Old World and New World during the European Age of Exploration.
What is the Colombian Exchange?
Cuba’s major natural resources.
What is cobalt, nickel, iron ore, chromium, copper, salt, timber, silica, petroleum, and arable land.
Location on the Atlantic Ocean allows it to ship products all over the world.
The name Latin America comes from the fact that Spanish, Portuguese and French came from the Latin language. These languages are called____.
What are Romance languages?
Violent extremism associated with the illegal drug trade, particularly as relates to cocaine or heroin.
What is narco-terrorism?
Referring to the nations and cultures of Europe’s Iberian Peninsula, Spain and Portugal.
What is Iberian?
Cuba’s GDP.
What is $72.3 billion?
Warm, moderate temperatures due to ocean breeze.
Fidel Castro led an army of rebels and defeated the corrupt government against a dictator Fulgencio Batista.
What is the Cuban Revolution?
Worth of goods and services NAFTA produces (in dollars).
What is $17 trillion?
An economic system wherein private ownership is largely forbidden and all industries and resources are under the control of the state coup – the act of overthrowing an existing governing authority.
What is communist?
How much the service industry accounts for Brazil’s economy.
What is 69%?
Few people live here because government owns the farms .
The closest the world (up to that point) had ever come to a Third World War.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States Entered the North American Free Trade Agreement (when).
What is January 1, 1994?
Former communist dictator of Cuba who led the ouster of Fulgencio Batista in the 1959 Cuban Revolution.
Who is Fidel Castro?
This many Cuban pesos equals to one US dollar.
What are 26.5 Cuban pesos?