Spain took this precious metal and silver during their conquest of the Aztec and Inca Empires
What is Gold?
100
It was from 200 CE to 900 CE that this empire dominated the southern area of modern Mexico.
What are the Maya?
100
This city is located at 9000 feet and is the capital of Ecuador.
What is Quito?
100
These two ethnicities make up 80% of the population of Latin America.
What are Native Americans (indigenous) and African.
100
This means to plant new trees.
What is reforestation?
200
These Europeans claimed parts of Latin America for Spain.
What are Conquistadors?
200
This Empire was the largest of the three main indigenous empires of Latin America.
What is The Inca(n)?
200
These mountains make up the western edge of South America.
What are The Andes Mountains?
200
These people first came to Spain as slaves.
What are African immigrants?
200
This landform makes up a large part of Brazil and has been extensively cut back in the past few decades.
What is the rainforest?
300
Most Latin American countries gained their independence in what century?
What is the 19th or the 1800s?
300
These were the three indigenous empires.
What are the Mayans, the Aztecs, and the Inca?
300
Latin America includes South America, Central (or Middle) America and this area.
What is The Caribbean?
300
These two countries have the highest European populations of Latin America.
What are Argentina and Uruguay?
300
Latin America's economy is dependent on this from other countries.
What is foreign loans or aid?
400
This is the official religion of the Spanish colonists.
What is Catholicism?
400
This set of knotted cords was probably for accounting purposes.
What is quipu?
400
This river is the longest in the western hemisphere.
What is The Amazon
400
Latin Americans are struggling with this because of their geography and spread out population.
What is distribution of goods and services?
400
The process of burning forest lands and then planting grasses gives that grassland this many years of productivity. (i.e. How long until the grass dries and dies?)
What is 4 years?
500
This was the first country to gain its independence from a European power.
What is Haiti?
500
This was the last King of the Inca.
Who was Atahualpa?
500
This city is built upon a lake. It is modern day Mexico City, but it went by another name under the Aztec Empire.
What is Tenochtitlan?
500
The pollution in this city is so bad, children cannot leave their homes on some days.
What is Mexico City?
500
These are the languages spoken in Latin America.
What are Spanish, Portuguese, and Native American Languages?