What is the name of the two way trade of goods and food after the Europeans arrived in Latin America?
Columbian Exchange
100
These people used Llama's
Inca
100
The name of the people who lived in a country before the Europeans arrived, and their descendants?
Indigenous
100
What is the name of the river that divides the US and Mexico?
Rio Grande
100
Define the word "malnutrition"
Not having the proper diet for a healthy body
200
What is the name of a sweatshop in Latin America?
Maquiladora
200
These people were polytheistic
ALL 3
200
What were some negative effects of the Columbian Exchange?
Slavery, spread of diseases, famine
200
The island nation 90 miles off the coast of Florida that has a communist government.
Cuba
200
Which 2 groups from the Amazon debate would most likely agree with each other to a ban on logging?
Environmentalists and Native Amazonians
300
What are small loans given to poor people so they can start their own businesses called?
microfinance
300
Sacrificed children after an emperor’s death to serve as guides in the afterlife
Inca
300
The term for using resources in a way that doesn't destroy them.
Sustainable development
300
The tallest waterfall in the world that is located in Venezuela.
Angel Falls
300
True of False: Public healthcare and education is free in Cuba?
True. (It is a communist country, the government controls everything)
400
Refusing to trade with another country
Embargo
400
Performed human sacrifice
All 3 (Aztec's performed the most)
400
Why were the Spanish conquerors so easily able to take over the native populations of the Americas?
The Aztecs thought they were gods, had horses and guns, spread smallpox to the natives
400
The grasslands area where Argentina raises its beef cattle
Pampas
400
Why did the U.S. place an embargo on Cuba?
The government took over American businesses without paying the business owners
500
The term for cutting down trees to use the land for other purposes.
Deforestation
500
Believed their white-skinned god, Quetzalcoatl, would return. Their capital was Tenochtitlan in modern-day Mexico City.
Aztec
500
Describe how land use conflict in the Amazon Rain forest could lead to deforestation.
The land use conflict is an argument over the best ways to use the land that could potentially lead to the clearing away of trees, which is deforestation.
500
This capital city was once the capital for the Aztec's known as Tenochtitlan
Mexico City
500
True or False. Logging and cattle ranchers are examples of sustainable development.
False-sustainable development is using resources within the rainforest without destroying it.