MAP Questions
Geography of Latin America
Early Latin American History
Latin American Independence
Cuban Revolution
100
mountain range that stretches all the way down the coast of South America.
What are the Andes Mountains?
100
Most people live on the coast of Brazil because of this.
What is the interior is forest/jungle?
100
leader of the Aztecs.
Who is Montezuma II?
100
freed Mexico
Who is Hidalgo
100
dictator of Cuba before the Cuban Revolution
Who is Batista?
200
mountain range in Mexico
What are the Sierra Madre Mountains?
200
Few people live in the northern part of Mexico because of this.
What is few natural resources?
200
Last leader of the Incas.
Who is Atahualpa?
200
freed much of South America
Who is Bolivar
200
owned many sugar plantations and businesses in Cuba before the Cuban Revolution.
Who is the US?
300
This allows ships to pass from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
300
Cuba must do this because it has very few natural resources.
What is trade/buy them?
300
location of the Aztecs.
Where is Mexico?
300
freed the first nation in Latin America from the French and the only nation to earn its independence by slaves.
Who is L'Ouverture?
300
Took over Cuba as a result of the Cuban Revolution.
Who is Castro.
400
largest country in Latin America.
What is Brazil?
400
people of African and European ancestry in Latin America today are known as this.
What is mulatto?
400
These were needed to work on sugar plantations in the Americas.
Who are slaves from Africa?
400
language spoken in most of Latin America because of its colonizers.
What is Spanish.
400
type of government after the Cuban Revolution.
What is communism?
500
This country shares an island with the Dominican Republic
What is Haiti?
500
people of mixed native and European ancestry. These make up most people in Mexico today.
What is mestizo?
500
most detrimental thing that happened to the natives because of Europeans.
What is died from diseases?
500
only independence leader that was completely successful during his lifetime in seeing a European country totally defeated.
Who is Bolivar?
500
great ally of Cuba during the Cold War.
What is the Soviet Union?
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