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The holiday celebrated before Lent
What is Carnival?
Which country has a large Native American population
Who is Peru?
An example of pidgin language
What is Creole?
Which people of the Yucatan Peninsula developed a calendar, hieroglyphics, and a number system based on 20
What is Maya?
Famous Latin American painter
Who is Diego Rivera?
What seriously weakened Latin American economies in the mid-1900s
What is increasing debt?
Set up a communist state in Latin America
Who is Fidel Castro?
Which area is one of the largest urban areas in the world
What is São Paulo?
Symbolize the artistic traditions of the ancient Maya and Aztec
What are murals?
Who landed on Mexico’s Gulf coast with the goal of conquering the Aztec
Who is Hernan Cortes?
Had huge temples and “floating gardens
What is Tenochtitlan?
African Latin Americans form a high percentage of the population in
What are the Caribbean islands?
This is known as a Mexican holiday
What is the Day of the Dead?
Who liberated Argentina and Chile from Spanish rule
Who is Jose de San Martin?
has a mostly Spanish and Italian population
What is Argentina?
What language do most Brazilians speak
What is Portuguese?
Only nation created as a result of a successful revolt by enslaved people
What is Haiti?
Approximately what percentage of the population of Guyana is of Asian ancestry
What is 50%?
Colonial ruler of Brazil
What is Portugal?
Which country was the second country in the world to play baseball
What is Cuba?