Latin America Geography
Latin America Histrory
Latin America Random
Latin America Economy
Latin America Terms
100
What is Brazil?
100
This trade introduced new foods to both Latin America and Europe. Latin America and Europe also traded animals during this trade, but the most important was Latin America getting horses from Europe.
What is the Colombian Exchange?
100
This is the dominant religion in Latin American.
What is Catholicism?
100
The United States, Canada and what Latin America Country is involved in NAFTA.
What is Mexico?
100
The largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the disputed longest river in the world.
What is the Amazon River?
200
Located in the northern hemisphere, this countries main natural resource is oil and has issues with air pollution.
What is Mexico?
200
During this trade, Slaves were brought from Africa to Latin America, Plantation Crops were brought from Latin America to Europe, and Manufactured Goods were brought from Europe to Africa.
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
200
The Aztec Empire prospered in this country
What is Southern Mexico?
200
Agriculture and fishing are two chief economic activities for this Latin America area.
What is Central America?
200
An economic system/government where private ownership is largely forbidden and all industries and resources are under control.
What is Communism?
300
Located in the northern hemisphere and is the largest Caribbean Island, most people in this country live in urban areas because the government owns the farms.
What is Cuba?
300
They created terrace farming and aqueducts.
What is the Incas?
300
Mixed with Native American and European ancestry
What is Mestizo?
300
This term refers to one nation taking control of an area and dominating its government, economy, and society?
Colonialism
300
An economic policy which blocks all trade. The US did this to Cuba.
What is an embargo?
400
This mountain range is the largest in Latin America and is the result of the Ring of Fire.
What is the Andes Mountains?
400
Was an Aztec city that flourished between A.D. 1325 and 1521.
What is Tenochtitlan?
400
These two European countries gave the Language and religion in Latin America.
What is Spain and Portugal?
400
Immigrants move to a country because of...
What is a better paying jobs, education opportunities, and higher standard of living
400
Highways, Streets, and Roads, Bridges, Mass Transit, Airports, and Airways
What is infrastructure?
500
These are geographic features that make up most of South America.
Amazon Basin and Andes Mountains
500
This introduced the Spanish language and Catholicism
What is Spanish colonization
500
This was a result of isolation from Europe, Asia, and Africa
What is lack of immunity to several diseases?
500
The US made an embargo with this country because they have a communist government and a command economy.
What is Cuba?
500
A vast tropical grassland plain situated to the east of the Andes in Colombia and Venezuela, in northwestern South America.
What is Llanos?