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100
This is name of the area today where the Aztecs once built a great civilization.
What is the Valley of Mexico?
100
Define a caudillo.
What is a militray officer who gaind power in Latin America after independence?
100
Brazil was once a colony of which country in Europe?
What is Portugal?
100
What is the name of the country to gain independence earliest on a timeline?
What is Haiti and 1804?
100
This is the result of the population explosion in Latin America.
What is people moving to cities?
200
These two cities were part of the Mayan Civilization.
What is Copan & Tikal?
200
This is the term for the power given by Spain to settlers to demand taxes or labor from Native Americans.
What is encomienda?
200
Spain's two most important colonies in the Americas were called this.
What is New Spain & Peru?
200
The Line of Demarcation was an imaginary line that divided control of the territory in the Americas between which two countries?
What is Spain & Portugal?
200
This initial event caused a chain of things to happen which created a huge amount of debt for many Latin American countries including Brazil.
What is the price of oil went up and forced Latin American countries to borrow monies to keep their factories going.
300
This civilization was located on the western coast of South America.
What is the Incan Civilization?
300
Define a quipu.
What is knotted strings that the Incas used to record information?
300
The two leaders who were primarily responsible for the independence of South America are these.
Who is Jose de San Martin & Simon Bolivar?
300
Europeans brought back to their country from the Americas several types of food and animals, but not these since Native Americans had never seen them before.
What is horses?
300
In recent times, many Latin American countries have tried to control foreign investment by keeping foreign companies from doing this.
What is buying too much land?
400
The Incas used these two accomplishments to keep their vast empire strong.
What is roads & aqueducts?
400
The Mayas recorded their history using signs and symbols that were part of this writing system.
What is hieroglyphics?
400
Under this person's leadership the newly independent Columbia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Panama became joined in a federation call Gran Columbia.
Who is Simon Bolivar?
400
These are the two reasons that a small band of Spanish soldiers were able to conquer much of Latin America and the people living there.
What is: they had guns, cannons, & horses; they had help from some Native American people because they were rivals of other Native Americans; Spanish people carried diseases that wiped out many of the Native Americans;
400
Most of these military officers called _______ , who ruled Latin American countries after independence were concerned mainly with getting rich and holding power.
What is caudillos?
500
This is the name of the city at the center of the Aztec civilization.
What is Tenochtitlan?
500
This term describes someone who was born in Latin America, but had Spanish parents or grandparents.
What is a criollo?
500
What other revolts inspired Haiti's fight for independence and then what did this cause to happen for the rest of the region?
What is the French & American Revolutions and Haiti's fight for independence probably caused other people in Latin America to want their independence.
500
Give ways that the Mayan, Incan & Aztec civilization's downfalls are alike and how they are different. Then give an example how each of them have survived until modern day.
What is : alike: Incas & Aztecs were conquered by the Spanish. Not known how the Mayan civilization failed. Many of the Mayan people still live in parts of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, & El Salvador; Aztec foods still eaten today; the Quechua language is still spoken today.
500
Foreign companies in Latin America often had control over the economies of Latin American countries. True or False?
What is True.
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