South America Part A
The Andes Mountains stretch for many miles along which side of South America?
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What term describes people who move from place to place?
What is western?
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Who were hunter-gatherers?
Which statement is true about rain forests?
A They help clean the earth’s air.
B They produce greenhouse gases.
C They exist in cool, dry climates.
D They cover most of South America.
What is A?
What empire was located along the western coast of South America from 1438 until the 1530s?
What is Inca?
In Brazil, from where did most slave labor come?
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What word is defined as objects left behind by past cultures?
Where is Africa?
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What are artifacts?
What were the two most important city-states in Greece?
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What was the guillotine used for?
What were Sparta and Athens?
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What is as an execution method?
What do Great Britain, Iceland, and Corsica have in common?
What is they are all islands in Europe?
What industry in Great Britain started the Industrial Revolution?
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What was the result of the bubonic plague?
What is textile?
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What is millions of people died?
What was the Holocaust in World War II?
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Who were Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci?
What is the killing of 6 million Jews and others?
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Who were artists?
In what type of farming do people grow only enough food to feed their own families?
What is subsistence farming?
What problem can be created by El Niños?
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In South America, which regions are known for their extreme climates?
What is floods?
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What are the Andes Mountains and the Amazon River Basin?
What was the main goal of many missionaries who came to South America?
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What did the Treaty of Tordesillas do?
What is to convert people to their religious beliefs?
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What is it divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal?
What geographic feature stretches nearly the entire width of South America?
What is the Amazon Basin?
What body of water has lost much of its red coral because of overfishing, overdevelopment, and pollution?
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What best describes the Mediterranean climate?
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
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What is hot, dry summers and mild, rainy winters?
What was one of the main purposes of European exploration?
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What was the Iron Curtain?
What is to trade and establish new colonies?
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What was an imaginary border that divided Europe during the Cold War?
What was one result of the treaty that ended World War I?
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How did the invention of the printing press change Europe?
What is several new countries were formed?
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What is most people could get knowledge by reading?
What was the purpose of the Crusades?
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What legacy did Roman engineers leave?
What was to take back holy lands from Muslims?
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What were roads, aqueducts, and arched buildings?
Smaller rivers that drain into a larger river are called what?
What are tributaries?
The slash-and-burn technique is a way of doing what?
What is clearing land for farming?
What best describes the climate found in the highest elevations of the Andes Mountains?
What is cold, with little rainfall?
What is a major threat to rain forest lands?
What are growing populations?
What natural resources do the mountain chains of Europe provide?
What are forests (wood) and minerals?
How was the Roman Republic different from earlier governments in Italy?
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What ended the Roman Republic?
What is citizens had rights and roles in government?
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What is war started between the rich and poor?
What was an important cause of the French Revolution?
What is unfair treatment of lower and middle classes?
Why was Alexander the Great famous?
What was he extended his empire through most of Eurasia?
What is the climate like over most of the Amazon River Basin?
What is hot and humid?
What do greenhouse gases do?
What is trap heat energy, causing the Earth to warm?
How were the Inca able to farm on the slopes of the Andes Mountains?
What are terraced fields?
Which of the following is an achievement of the Inca civilization?
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What happens during the process known as transpiration?
What is irrigation canals?
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What is plants and trees release water vapor?
Who made the laws when Rome was a republic?
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What did Emperor Constantine do?
Who were the Senate and the Assembly?
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What is he split the Roman Empire into eastern and western halves?
What was Martin Luther trying to reform?
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
What allowed Philip of Macedonia to conquer Greece?
What is a long war between Sparta and Athens weakened Greece?
Why did cities grow so quickly during the Industrial Revolution?
What was people moved to cities for factory jobs?
What causes the Atacama Desert to be so dry?
What is the Andes Mountains prevent moist winds from reaching the coast of Chile?
Who led the revolution against the Spanish in South America?
Who was Simón Bolívar?
African slaves were used to harvest which two major plantation crops?
What was sugar and coffee?
What is one reason that people have lived in South America’s lowlands for thousands of years?
What is an abundant food supply?
What happened just before World War I?
What is countries made alliances to increase their power?
What event helped Adolf Hitler gain power in Germany?
What is the Great Depression?
How does the North Atlantic Drift affect Europe?
What is its current makes the climate warmer?
How did Pericles improve Athens’ power?
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What was the Roman Way?
What is he constructed a strong navy?
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What as a code of values for Roman citizens?