Culture
Name three ancient Latin American civilizations.
What is Mayans, Aztec, and Inca.
What are the 3 "G's" that influenced European exploration?
What is God, gold, and glory?
Name the four factors of production.
What is land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship?
A series of mountain ranges in Mexico.
What is Sierra Madres?
This branch is responsible for enforcing laws.
What is executive branch.
This empire were well known for their written language, mathematics, and temples.
What is Maya.
The Aztec were an empire in central Mexico who used a farming technique called _______.
What is chinampas?
Which economic system does the USA, Mexico, and Japan have?
What is capitalism?
Latin America sits on several different ________ ________, resulting in volcanoes, mountains, and lots of earthquakes.
What is tectonic plates?
The Senate and House of Representatives make up this branch.
What is legislative branch.
These warriors practiced human sacrifice, and are responsible for foods such as tortillas and chocolate.
What is the Aztec Empire.
As a result of European colonization in Latin America, the two main languages spoken are _____ and _____.
What is Spanish and Portuguese?
What are the three levels of industry?
What is agriculture, manufacturing, and retail/service.
The Amazon River runs through the _________ ________.
What is Amazon Basin?
What are the three branches of US government?
What is executive, legislative, and judicial.
The spread of any element of a culture from one group to another group.
What is cultural diffusion.
The exchange between Europe, Africa, and Asia and the "New World" of disease like small pox, ideas like religion, crops like sugar cane, people, etc.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
An ________ _________ is a statistic used to compare economic activity such as life expectancy, GDP, GDP per capita, and literacy.
What is an economic indicator?
The ______ ________ cuts across the Isthmus of Panama allowing ships to take a shortcut and not go around South America.
What is the Panama Canal?
Is responsible for interpreting laws (hint:Supreme Court).
What is judicial branch.
Who brought social classes such as criolles, mulattos, peninsulares, and mestizos?
What is New Spain.
This ancient civilization lived in the Andes and created the Machu Picchu.
What is the Inca?
This type of economic system has a mixed economy.
What is socialism?
On the west coast of South America, the ________ _________, blocked by the Andes Mountains, is one of the driest places on Earth.
What is the Atacama Desert?
What ensures that no branch becomes too powerful?
What is checks and balances.