Brazil and its neighbors
This is a big environmental problem in the Amazon rainforest because ranchers are cutting down trees to raise more cattle (cows).
What is deforestation?
This person was at the top of the social pyramid in feudalism.
Who is the king?
Renaissance means this in French.
What is rebirth?
This word describes empire-building and led to increased rivalry (competition) between different nations.
What is imperialism?
This city was divided until 1989 between the Soviets who controlled the eastern side of it and the British, French and Americans who controlled the western side of it.
What is Berlin?
He was born in 1783 in Caracas (present-day Venezuela) and helped lead much of South America to become independent from Spain.
Who was Simon Bolivar?
These people were at the bottom of the social pyramid in feudalism.
Who were peasants?
He is credited with inventing the printing press.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
He led a revolution that happened during the First World War and led to Communism (governments based on Marxism).
Who was Vladimir Lenin?
This American couple was executed (put to death) by electric chair in 1953 after being found guilty of sharing military secrets with the Soviet Union.
Who were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama are part of this region.
What is Central America?
Charlemagne was the king of these people.
Who were the Franks?
Portuguese explorers such as Vasco da Gama were searching for a way to sail around this continent in order to reach India.
What is Africa?
This was the type of fascism that was invented in Germany and combined racism and totalitarianism.
What is Nazism/National Socialism?
This is the money used in many EU countries.
What is the euro (€)?
This is a famous archeological site in Peru.
What is Machu Picchu?
This is another word for Middle Ages.
What is medieval?
New foods, animals and diseases were spread between the Americas (the "New World") and Europe, Africa and Asia (the "Old World") during this exchange.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This was a genocide that happened during World War II under the Nazis.
What was the Holocaust?
These six countries were founding members of the European Economic Community (EEC), which later developed into the European Union in 1993.
What are Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg (Benelux countries), plus West Germany, France and Italy?
These people were used in civil wars that were fought in Central America in 1960s to the 1990s.
What are children?
Charlemagne was ruler of this empire.
What was the Holy Roman Empire?
This revolution began in Great Britain and led to increased productivity.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This new legal system was developed after the Second World War by the United Nations to ensure protections for all people from crimes against humanity.
What is International Human Rights Law?
Gaelic, Cornish, Manx, and Welsh are among the languages spoken in this country which left the EU in 2020.
What is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?