LAC Geography
This country is south of Mexico.
What is Guatemala?
The Conquistador, Hernán Cortés, led the conquest of this empire in Mexico.
What is the Aztec empire? What are the Aztecs?
A ruler with absolute power and authority.
What is a dictator?
It is a two day holiday in November that reunites the living and dead.
Qué es el día de los muertos? What is the Day of the Dead?
the first European ones to ever have touched North American soil.
Who are the vikings?
These two countries in South America have no access to the ocean.
What are Bolivia and Paraguay?
This indigenous civilization built Machu Picchu.
What is the Inca empire? What are the Incas?
it means a government of, by and for the people.
What is a democracy?
A thin, circular unleavened flatbread from Mexico and Central America originally made from maize. The Aztecs and other Nahuatl speakers called them tlaxcalli.
What is a tortilla?
This empire introduced Latin to the Iberian peninsula
What is the Roman empire?
This river officially becomes the border between Mexico and the US in 1884.
What is the Rio Grande?
This indigenous civilization inhabited the Caribbean when Columbus arrived.
What are the Taínos? What are the Arawak?
"A philosophy or system of government that is marked by stringent social and economic control, a strong, centralized government usually headed by a dictator, and often a policy of belligerent nationalism." (From The American Heritage Dictionary)
What is Fascism?
Mole is a dish from this country made with chicken and chocolate.
What is Mexico?
This empire conquered the province known today as Andalucía (Spain) and established the Independent Caliphate of Cordoba in 711 A.D.
What is the Muslim empire?
This Caribbean island is considered unincorporated territory of the United States.
What is Puerto Rico?
This indigenous civilization had a writing system with more than 800 hieroglyphs.
What is the Maya empire? What are the Maya?
A form of government in which citizens choose their leaders by voting.
What is a republic?
Jarabe tapatío, often referred to as the hat dance, is the national dance of this country.
What is Mexico?
This Castillian King united the Catholic Christian Kingdoms in 1495 and expelled the muslims from Hispaniola.
Who is King Ferdinand of Aragon?
The Galápagos Islands is a province of this country.
What is Ecuador?
This is the first indigenous civilization in Mesoamerica.
What are the Olmec?
a government run by religious leaders
What is a theocracy?
Name of the nomadic and colorful horseman and cowhand of the Argentine and Uruguayan Pampas (grasslands).
What is a gaucho?
This queen married to Ferdinand of Aragon sponsored Christopher Columbus voyages to the "new world"?
Who is queen Isabel of Castilla?