Capitals
Mexico
Mexico City
Puerto Rico
What is San Juan?
El Salvador
What is San Salvador?
Cuba
What is Havana?
Columbus and his crew did not yet realize upon arriving at land that they had not reached India, but a series of islands now bearing this name
What are the Bahamas?
Islands like these two were mountainous and rugged inland...
What are Jamaica and Hispaniola?
It wasn't hard to predict where ships transporting these two precious metals from countries around the coast would pass by, due to the relatively few safe shipping lanes in the Caribbean
What are gold and silver?
any of the world's main continuous expanses of land
What is a continent?
a small sheltered bay
What is a cove?
Guatemala
What is Guatemala City?
Bahamas
What is Nassau?
Nicaragua
What is Managua?
Dominican Republic
What is Santo Domingo?
The warm, subtropical climate and volcanic soil lent itself to labor-intensive crops such as these three
What are coffee, sugar, and tobacco?
...protecting the runaway slaves who were dubbed this name, whose free societies organized raids against their former masters
What are maroons?
Many former slaves joined a long tradition of marauders known alternately by these four names
What are pirates, buccaneers, privateers, and maroons?
the part of the land adjoining or near the sea.
What is a coast?
the area of seabed around a large land mass where the sea is relatively shallow compared with the open ocean. The continental shelf is geologically part of the continental crust
What is a continental shelf?
Panama
What is Panama City?
Belize
What is Belmopan?
Dominica
What is Roseau?
St Kitts and Nevis
What is Basseterre?
In the years following Columbus's landing, at least five European powers fought for control of the islands - name three
What are Spanish, Dutch, English, French, Portuguese?
In Jamaica, Captain Cudjoe and Queen Nanny negotiated a 1738 ______ with the British recognizing their autonomy
What is a treaty?
From these two places groups of countries, one you have already studied, one you will very soon, came gold and silver
What are Central and South America?
a nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory
What is a country?
a steep or rugged cliff or rock face
What is a crag?
Jamaica
What is Kingston?
Honduras
What is Tegucigalpa?
Antigua and Barbuda
What is St John's?
Grenada
What is St George's?
By the 1600's, slave ships regularly stopped in one or all of these three islands...
What are Barbados, Jamaica, Saint-Domingue?
Numerous small islands, hidden coves, and protected ports like these two provided ample refuge after attacks...
What are Tortuga and Port Royal?
a valley, especially in northern England
What is a dale?
a narrow, sheltered waterway, especially an inlet in a shoreline or channel in a marsh
What is a creek?
Barbados
What is Bridgetown?
St Vincent and the Grenadines
What is Kingstown?
Trindad and Tobago
What is Port-of-Spain?
St Lucia, Virgin Islands (US)
What are Castries, Charlotte Amalie?
...before riding this current to the Carolinas
What is the North Equatorial current?
...enabling the exploits of infamous pirates such as these six (of which you only have to name three)
Who are Henry Morgan, Francis Drake, Edward Teach (Blackbeard), Captain Kidd, Anne Bonny and Mary Read?
a large bowl-shaped cavity in the ground or on a celestial object, typically one caused by an explosion or the impact of a meteorite
What is a crater?
any land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops
What is cultivated land?