European Influence
This European country colonized Brazil and left Portuguese as the country's primary language.
What is Portugal?
This South American country has the largest population of people of African descent in the region and was heavily influenced by African culture.
What is Brazil?
This Brazilian celebration is famous for parades, costumes, music, dancing, and samba.
What is Carnival?
This historical exchange moved plants, animals, people, diseases, and ideas between the Americas and Europe after European contact.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This language is spoken throughout most of South America as a result of Spanish colonization.
What is Spanish?
This Brazilian musical and dance tradition has strong African influences.
What is Samba?
This musical and dance tradition is strongly associated with Argentina and Uruguay.
What is Tango?
During this period, many South American colonies fought to become independent from European powers.
What are the Independence Movements
This religion became widespread throughout South America as a result of Spanish and Portuguese colonization.
What is Christianity/Catholicism?
In 1908 this groups of immigrants started making their way to South America, and Brazil in particular
What are Japanese Immigrants?
This Peruvian dish made with raw fish and citrus is an example of South America's diverse food culture.
What is Ceviche?
This was a result of independence movements in South America.
What are new cultural identities?
This European country had the greatest influence on Brazil during the colonial period.
What is Portugal?
This time period was characterized by millions of immigrants coming from various European countries.
What are the 1800s-1900s?
This concept describes the blending of different cultural traditions into new traditions, such as African and European influences combining in Brazil.
What is cultural syncretism?
This country was the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery, doing so in 1888.
What is Brazil?
This historical process brought European languages, religion, architecture, and customs into contact with existing Indigenous cultures.
What is European colonization?
This historical event forcibly brought millions of Africans to the Americas and had a major influence on South American food, music, religion, and traditions.
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
A person studying South American culture notices that music, food, religion, language, and festivals often contain influences from several different cultural groups. What larger concept does this demonstrate?
What is cultural blending?
This major historical development helped create modern South American cultures by bringing Indigenous, European, and African peoples and traditions into contact with one another.
What is European Colonization?