A style of music developed in Jamaica in the 1960s and rooted in African, Carribbean, and American music styles dealing with social problems and religion
What is Reggae
100
an ancient technique for growing crops on hillsides or mountain slopes, using step-like horizontal fields cut into the slopes.
What is terraced farming?
100
Institutional Revolutionary party, a single party which formed in Mexico in 1929 and ruled until 2000.
What is the P.R.I.
100
This region was heavily influenced by African culture via the slave trade
What are the Caribbean Islands?
100
In what compas quadrant are the Andes Mountains located in South America?
What is the Western?
200
festival day in Brazil in which floats are ridden through the city and the Samba is danced in the streets.
What is Carnival?
200
a ship canal cut through Panama connecting the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean
What is the Panama Canal?
200
an important trade agreement creating a zone of cooperation on economic issues in North America
What is NAFTA?
200
This region uses murals as a major form of artisitc expression
What is Central America?
200
Three elements common in a black market or informal economy
What are Guns, Drugs, and Trafficking?
300
people of mixed Spanish and Native American heritage in Mexico
What is a Mestizo?
300
a way of clearing fields for planting by cutting trees, brush, and grasses then burning them
What is slash-and-burn?
300
an agreement reached between Spain and Portgual in 1494 to divide South America
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
300
This European power controlled most of Latin America through colonization
What is Spain?
300
This country won Independence through a SLAVE REVOLT in 1804
What is Haiti?
400
An open market system used in Brazil
What is a Mercosur?
400
Daily Double:
Name four of the six islands that make up the Greater Antilles
What is Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Jamaica
400
a member of the Quechen peoples of SOuth America who built a civilization in the Andes Mountains in the 15th and 16th centuries.
What is the Inca?
400
This country has the largest territory and the largest population in all of South America
What is Brazil?
400
This area of study is more of a cultural region than a physical one
What is Latin America?
500
a Brazilian dance with African influences
What is the Samba?
500
The Andes Mountains in South America are part of an older larger Mountain range that used to be connected to this Mountain range in North America
What are the Rocky Mountains?
500
the ancient Aztec capitol, site of modern day Mexico City
What is Tenochititlan?
500
This country was the site of some of the Mayan Empire
What is Guatemala?
500
Daily Double:
The transfer of plants, animals, and peoples from the Eastern to the Western Hemisphere