Countries
The country the United Fruit Company manipulated.
What is Guatemala?
The economic system imposed on the Native People by the Spanish.
What is the encomienda system?
The year the Maya emerged in Latin America.
What is 250 BCE?
Percentage of Africans who died on the passage to the Americas?
What is 20%?
The other name given to a Cold War.
What is a proxy war?
Countries that make up the Northern Triangle.
What are Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala?
A large land grant given to the upper class people of New Spain.
What is a hacienda?
Three subjects the Maya were advanced in.
What are art, astronomy, and mathematics?
The dance that is a combination of Indigenous, Spanish, and African cultures.
What is the Fandango?
The Policy that warned European Countries not to try to start any new colonies in Latin America.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
The smallest of the countries inhabited by the Maya.
What is Belize?
People who were at the top of the encomienda system.
Who are the peninsulares?
The picture writing of the Maya.
What are hieroglyphs?
This many more Africans were brought to Latin America than the United States.
What is 25 times more?
The crop that the United Fruit Company made millions from.
What are bananas?
The country that U.S. President Roosevelt wanted to build a canal through.
What is Panama?
The Christian religion of the Spanish that was forced upon the Native people of Latin America.
What is Catholicism?
Name of the Mayan books mostly destroyed by the Spanish.
What are codices?
The name of the city in Mexico that was founded by runaway slaves.
What is Yanga?
The two economic systems that were at war with each other during the Cold War in Latin America.
What are capitalism and communism?
The year that Central America gained independence from Spain.
What is 1821?
These two groups of people provided the slave labor for the Spanish hacienda owners.
Who are the indigenous people and the Africans?
Worship pyramids of the Maya.
What are temples?
Three ways that African culture exists in Central America today can be found in these forms.
What are music, dance, and food?
The biggest problem created by the Cold War that still exists today.
What is political instability and corruption?