History
These 3 Ancient Civilizations, once made up a population of up to 100 million people in the New World.
What are the Incas, Mayas, Aztecs?
Most governments in Latin America are what type of government?
This mountain range is found on the western cost of South America.
What are the Andes?
What is the name of the columbian singer and icon who has honest hips?
Who is Shakira?
This part of land in panama thinly connects north and south america.
What is an Isthmus
Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century, are referred to as what?
What are Conquistadors?
This was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Americas, West Africa, and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries.
What is the Colombian Exchange
This country is the largest in south america
What is Brazil?
What tropical tree range is located in the middle of Brazil as well as 9 other countries?
What is the Amazon Rain Forest?
South America is primarily in what 2 hemispheres?
What are southern and western
The country of Ecuador gets its name from this line of Latitude and longitude?
What is the Equator?
These 2 economy types are largly used in south america
What are mixed and free market?
Name a country south of Paraguay
What is Argentina or Chile
What are the 2 primary languages spoken in Latin America.
What are Spanish and Portugese?
a natural depression on the earth's surface, typically containing water.
What is a basin?
Who did Brazil gain independence from and when?
Portugal in 1922
when a government order limits trade with another country it is called what?
What is embargo?
Name a country in South America that is Land Locked?
What is Bolivia or Paragauay
What is the primary religion practiced in latin american
what is christian or roman catholic
What are the 3 regions that Latin America is made up of?
What are the caribbean, centeral america, and south america
What was the name of the man who liberated many countires in south america from spanish rule?
Bonus points if you can name the country named after him
who is Simon Bolivar
Bolivia
What are the major sources of income in south america?
Farming, Oil
This is the smallest country in South America
What is Suriname
Who had the largest incluence on Latin American Music?
African or Indiginous culture
What is the 4th largest?