colonies
These two European countries colonized much of Latin America.
What are Spain and Portugal?
This term includes the beliefs, customs, practices, and behaviors of a particular nation or group of people.
What is culture?
Europeans in the sixteenth century find a cheap labor source for work in the New World from this continent.
What is Africa?
This Latin American country's language and culture is greatly influenced by Portugal.
What is Brazil?
These were the main two crops grown in Latin America by the Spanish and Portuguese.
What are sugarcane and coffee?
The need for more labor to grow and harvest cash crops devastated this region because 2/3 of the males were in slavery.
What is Africa?
This term describes the exchange of animals, ideas, diseases and foods between the Old and New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
These two countries colonized America.
What are Spain and Portugal?
Spain and Portugal brought this religion to Latin America.
What is Catholicism?
This language is most prevalent in Latin America today.
What is Spanish?
Ships loaded with American products returned to this region/continent.
What is Europe?
This term describes the trip that African slaves made from Africa to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
This Italian conquistador "discovered" the New World while searching for a route to India (China).
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Many of the natives died of diseases because they did not have this.
What is Immunity (to diseases)?
The African Slave Trade impacted Latin America's culture by changing their ___________.
What is religion, language, ethnic background, etc.?
These 3 civilizations in Latin America existed BEFORE European colonization.
What are Aztec, Maya, and Inca?
This group of people captured slaves and sold them to Europeans.
What are Africans?
This Spanish conquistador defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico.
Who is Hernan Cortez?
Plantations in Latin America prospered because of this.
What is slave labor?
The first shipment of slaves went directly from West Africa to this region to work on sugar plantations.
What is the Caribbean?
These colonies (or this region) sent goods such as cloth ,pots and pans, and firearms to Africa in exchange for slaves.
What is Europe or Europeans?
This is the Spanish term that described plantations or farms that the colonists used for growing crops.
What is hacienda?
On June 7, 1494, this treaty divided land outside of Europe between Portugal and Spain.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This describes the trade of raw materials from the Americas to Europe, manufactured goods from Europe to Africa and slaves from Africa to the Americas.
What is the Triangular Trade?
Africa shipped these to the Caribbean and Americas where they were sold for cash or sometimes bartered for sugar or molasses
What are slaves?