Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries
Lima is the capital city of this country.
What is Peru?
It is the 2nd longest river in the world, flows about 4,000 miles through the heart of South America
What is the Amazon river?
People from Latin America with an African descendancy.
What is an Afro-latino? What is an Afro-Latinx?
- Spanish soldier - An early 16th century Spanish adventurer who conquered Mexico, Central America and Peru
What is a Conquistador?
Considered the first Europeans to land on the eastern shores of the Americas around 1001 C.E.
Who are the Vikings?
This is the only country colonized by the Portuguese empire back in 1500 C.E.
What is Brazil?
This is a "string bean" country never more than 111 mi wide and stretching along the Pacific Coast 2,666 mi from north to south. Santiago is the capital city, Easter Island and the Strait of Magellen are found here.
What is Chile?
Established a highly developed civilization and empire in the Andes.
What is the Inca empire? Who are the Inca?
The study of how people seek to satisfy their needs and wants by making choices
What is Economy?
Named after Christopher Columbus. Describes the exchange of crops, goods, animals, and diseases between Europe and its colonies in the Americas after Columbus' voyage in 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This is the smallest and most densely populated country in Central America.
What is El Salvador?
Formed after extensive corrosion of limestone stone. They were used as wells or used for religious rituals that involved human sacrifice.
There are over 6,000 in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico.
What are cenotes?
This is a "string bean" country never more than 111 mi wide and stretching along the Pacific Coast 2,666 mi from north to south. Easter Island and the Strait of Magellen are found here.
What is Chile?
"A member of an irregular military force operating usually in small, independent groups capable of great speed and mobility." (From The American Heritage Dictionary)
What is a guerrilla? What is a guerrillero?
Spanish conquistador who led in the conquest of the Aztec empire.
Who is Hernan Cortés?
This country has no army and is known for having more Teachers than Police officers!
What is Costa Rica?
It is the largest freshwater lake in South America and the highest of the world's large lakes. It is one of less than twenty ancient lakes on earth, and is thought to be there million years old. This lake sits 3 810 m above sea level and is situated between Peru to the west and Bolivia to the east.
What is the Titicaca lake? What is Titicaca?
The first civilization to invent the chinampas, gardens that floated on the surface of the lake "Texcoco" in Mexico.
What is Teotihuacan?
The practice of one country extending its control over the territory, political system, or economic life of another country.
What is an empire?
The 1st permanent European settlement was founded on this Caribbean island in 1493.
What is Hispaniola? What is Española?
There are two countries in Latin America that do not have an autonomous access to the sea. One of them is _____, who has access through a river that crosses through other countries. The other one is _____, who has no access at all.
What are Paraguay and Bolivia?
This country has the largest indigenous population- descendents of the Mayan Indians.
The highest point in Central America, Tajumulco Volcano, is located here.
What is Guatemala?
International law prohibits colonialism. Nevertheless, rich countries look for ways to subject free countries to their hegemony, for example through loans, threats, economic sanctions, and even blackmail. This new form of economic domination is called...
What is Neocolonialism?
A 19th-century political idea which championed individual rights, civil liberties, and private property. In Latin America, it also opposed the Catholic Church's extensive control over society (anti-clericalism) and favored an end to special privileges (fueros) for military and clerical members.
What is Liberalism?
They invaded the Iberian Peninsula in 218 BCE, and imposed their culture, institutions, laws, and values until the fall of their empire in 476 C.E.
Who are the Romans?