Physical Geography
Economy
Population
Economic Trends
Culture
100
These four areas make up Latin America.
What is Mexico, Caribbean, Central and South America?
100
What is the leading cause of Latin American countries difficulties developing strong economies.
What is Foreign Colonization?
100
This is the name of the large society that is based what will be northern Mexico in Pre-Colonization Mexico.
What is Aztecs?
100
This is the economic phase where European countries will take as much of the natural resources as they can and not give anything back to the Latin American countries.
What is Extraction Phase?
100
These are languages that are used in Latin America.
What is Spanish and Portuguese?
200
This mountain range runs along the western coast of South America and causes difficulties in trade and communication.
What is the Andes mountains?
200
Countries in Latin America have trouble developing after Colonization because they continue to rely on these two factors.
What is natural resources and foreign exports?
200
This is the most powerful society in South America when the Spanish arrived there.
What is Incas?
200
Socialist groups lead independence movements throughout Latin America in an effort to industrialize the region.
What is Socialist Reform Phase?
200
This Latin American tradition originated with the Aztec is similar to a combination of weddings and sweet 16 parties in the United States. It is considered rite of passage celebration for females turning 15 years old.
What is Quinceanera?
300
This area is where most of the agriculture and population densities are located in South America.
What is The Lowlands?
300
This is the name of the economic system where King and Queen of Spain appoint a Spanish citizen to run a plantation style system. This system is used to extract all the resources possible by using the indigenous people as forced labor.
What is Encomienda system?
300
These people from these two places will blend together to make up a new ethnic group in the Caribbean.
What is Europe and Africa?
300
These are the two tactics that the United States uses to stop these Socialist Reform groups from taking power in Latin America.
What is military force and economic sanctions?
300
This is the tradition in Latin American where men are considered to be superior to women.
What is Machismo?
400
This area contains over 1/2 of the plant and animal species in the world. It is also responsible for helping to remove carbon dioxide and putting back oxygen into the atmosphere.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
400
The need for labor in Latin America after the indigenous people because of the harsh treatment in the Encomienda system will make this system necessary for Spain to become involved in..
What is the Slave Triangle?
400
This is the two ethnic groups will create a blend of people in Mexico and Central America.
What is Mestizos?
400
This is the economic phase were the countries of Latin America work to stabilize their economies. Although now independent, countries continue the legacy of exporting raw materials to foreign nations meaning that they remain dependent on foreign countries instead of work on development.
What is Free Market Reformist Phase?
400
Most of the cultural traits in Latin America are considered to be this kind of cultural trait.
What is Cultural Diffusion?
500
This mountain range runs along the western part of Central and creates a natural barrier for development in the region.
What is Sierra Madres
500
This beetle is an important natural resource to the Spanish during the colonization of Latin America for its ability to create a red dye that was used by the wealthy of Europe.
What is the Cochineal?
500
This population trend is when cities grow but in Latin America they grow so fast that they experience problems with health and disease, housing and crime.
What is Urbanization?
500
These are foreign owned factories along the U.S. and Mexican border that are a result of NAFTA.
What is Maquiladoras?
500
This is a group of religious leaders that will break off from the Catholic Church to create a more relaxed version of Catholicism that meets the needs of the poorer less educated people of Latin America.
What is Liberation Theologians.
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