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This civilization had a huge road system and a language that involved ropes.
What is the Inca civilization?
These two world events influenced the independence movement in Latin America.
What are The American Revolution in North America, and the French Revolution in France?
Civilization with a major writing system and complex calendar.
Maya
guns, cannons, horses, disease
What Europeans used to defeat the Native Americans.
wealthy and well-educated people in the Spanish colonies, but with little political power.
Who are creoles?
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
What is the agreement between Mexico and the United States that ended the Mexican American War and established the borders between the countries?
Cuban President that nationalized the economy and made the nation communist
Fidel Castro
Civilization known for conquering others and building a city on a lake.
What is Aztec civilization?
What two countries have tried to build the Panama canal? (Besides Panama)
France and the United States
Enocomiendas
Spanish plantation and labor system that used slave and indigenous people's labor.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Trade routes between Europe, Africa, and the Americas after Columbus's voyages and the increase in European exploration.
The image on the Mexican flag is based on a myth from which civilization?
Aztec
It made them fearful of slave revolts, it was led by black people who became the political leaders, and the United States supported the French refugees.
Priest who was dedicated to getting political and social rights for the indigenous people of South America (native people)
Bartolome De Las Casas
What is the major city of the Aztecs?
Tenochtitlan
What nation supported Cuba in the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The Soviet Union
How did Brazil get its independence? From what country?
The King of Portugal granted independence to Brazil, there was no revolution
Name three things traded on the Columbian Exchange.
Guns, enslaved people, tobacco, maize, tomatoes, potatoes, cows, horses, pigs, beans, finished goods from Europe, gold, silver, ideas, disease...