Vocabulary/Ideas
The people and groups that make the laws
What is Government?
They established the earliest well-developed written language in Latin America
Who were the Maya?
The land that connects Mexico and Latin America
What is Central America?
Used by the Inca to Farm
What are Stone Terraces and Irrigation?
Half of the earth.
What is hemisphere?
System by which goods and services are exchanged between people and countries
What is Economics?
An important technological advancement that helped bring together the Inca Empire
What are Stone Roads?
The National Language of Brazil
What is Portuguese?
This was caused by the Spanish Invasion... the Spanish taking over the Empire
What was the Collapse of the Aztec Empire?
A body of land that is surrounded by water
What is an Island?
Mountain range in South America that stretches over 5000 miles
What are the Andes?
Early written language developed by the Maya in Central America
What are Hieroglyphs?
Main languages used in Latin America
What are Portuguese and Spanish?
This was caused by building dams, large commerical (business) farms, grazing (feeding) cattle.
What is Deforestation?
A part of a map that shows north, south, east, and west
What is a Compass Rose?
Exchange of products and ideas between people in the Americas and the Spanish
What was the Columbian Exchange?
Inca city high in the Andes remarkable for stonework
What is Machu Picchu?
Place that is facing environmental destruction brought on by humans
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
This is the result of ongoing loss of the Amazon Rainforest
What is the Extinction of rare (unusual) species?
We study this to learn about what happened in the past and how it affects us today
What is history?
Line that latitude that separates Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres
What is the Equator?
Center of Aztec Civilization. Mexico City was built on the remains of the ancient City
What was Tenochtitlan?
Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Guatemala, Ecuador, all these are examples of...
What are countries in Latin America?
The line of longitude that divides the earth into Eastern and Western Hemispheres
What is the Prime Meridian
The study of people, places, and environment; the study of earth and its features. Begins with the letter G...
What is geography?