People
Places
Events
Cultural Diffusion
Grab Bag
100
What are the people original to the land called?
Native Americans/Indians
100
Where did the Aztecs begin?
Valley of Mexico-Tenochtitlan
100
Eventually Mexico gained independence from Spain and you can still see the culture represented where today?
Mexico City
100
What is cultural diffusion?
The spreading of ideas and goods from one place to another
100
If my government controls all of the banks and resources for a country, what kind of economy does that country have?
Command
200
Who were the three major people groups in Latin America?
Aztecs, Mayans, Incas
200
Where did the Mayans begin?
Yucatan Peninsula
200
What transportation corridor was built to allow people and goods to move easier throughout Latin America?
The Panama Canal
200
What language is widely spoken in Latin America due to colonization by Spain?
Spanish
200
Brazil speaks Portuguese due to being colonized by who?
Portugal
300
What were the Spanish called that led the conquests for colonization?
Conquistadors
300
Where did the Incas begin?
The Andes Mountains
300
What religion is widely practiced due to colonization by Spain?
Roman Catholicism
300
If I were a silver miner in Mexico, where would I want to live?
The Plateau of Mexico or the Mexican Plateau
400
Who was the Spaniard that led the colonization of Mexico?
Hernan Cortez
400
What is a major issue in the Amazon Rainforest?
Deforestation
400
What vision was seen for Tenochtitlan to be built in the middle of Lake Texcoco?
An eagle eating a serpent perched on a cactus
400
What is considered as the combining of the two great worlds-where goods ideas and people were shared between the Eastern and Western worlds?
The Columbian Exchange
400
Where do most people live in Latin America and why?
along the coast; access to trade!
500
Hernan Cortez was believed to be the human form of what god?
Quetzalcoatl
500
What is urbanization a result of?
People hoping to escape from poverty
500
Mexico gained their independence from Spain in what year?
1821
500
What did the Europeans take from the Aztecs in the Columbian Exchange?
CHOCOLATE!
500
What language is spoken in Peru today that is native to the Inca people?
Quechua
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