Lesson 1
A 4,000 mile long river across South America.
What is the Amazon River?
The country's capitol is located in this region.
What is the Interior?
Uruguay declared independence from this country in 1825.
What is Spain?
A major naval base and commercial port in the Spanish empire.
What is Cartagena?
This country has the least amount of people who speak mostly native languages.
What is Chile?
Mostly grasslands with a few trees at a low elevation without much vegetation which flood easily.
What is Llanos?
This was the last country to end slavery.
What is Brazil?
This is a popular Indian Language.
What is Guarani?
A group of workers stopping work until their demands are met.
What is a strike?
This Spanish explorer captured the Inca King and eventually killed him.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
When soil is infertile because it has lost nutrients needed by plants.
What is soil exhaustion?
This is the nation's poorest region.
What is the Northeast?
44 million people live in this country.
What is Argentina?
The year that Venezuela elected their first president.
What is 1959?
This terrorist group was active in Peru in the 80's and 90's.
This physical feature spans across the Pacific South American countries.
What is the Andes Mountain Range?
Rivers provide transportation and resources.
What is the Amazon?
This is the capital of Argentina.
What is Buenos Aires?
These are the two most important products in Guyana.
What is rice and sugar?
These people are South-American born descendants of Europeans. They also helped lead Ecuador, Peru, and Chile to independence.
This is found at the southern tip of the continent.
What is Magellan?
Early Brazilian life was based on these 3 things.
What is hunting, fishing, and small-scale farming?
These are the 3 country's Paraguay shares boarders with.
What is Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina?
This was created after independence was won from Spain.
What is the republic of Grand Columbia?
This person made sure the Indians followed the Spanish laws and customs.
Who is the Spanish Viceroy?