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Mexico
Central America
Central America II
Caribbean
Various
100
Indigenous population in Mexico City overrun by the Spanish in the 1500s
What are the Aztecs, or Mexica?
100
A typical Central American would earn their living through...
What is farming?
100
Sandinistas were present in this country
What is Nicaragua?
100
Year Christopher Columbus "found" the Caribbean
What is 1492?
100
True or False: The Caribbean has ample space and many rural areas
What is False?
200
Festival known as Day of the Dead
What is Dia de los Muertos?
200
The social class that has the largest percentage of people in Central America
What is the lower class?
200
The country that death squads roamed the countryside in during their civil war
What is El Salvador?
200
Percentage of African slaves that were brought to Latin America
What is 90%?
200
Most important industry in the Caribbean for their economy
What is tourism?
300
The lowest point in Mexico
What is Laguna Salada?
300
The landform that has made life difficult in Central America
What are mountains?
300
The country with the civil war lasting over 30 years, from the 1960s to the 1990s
What is Guatemala?
300
Name the three regions of the Caribbean (open ended)
What are the Lesser Antilles, Greater Antilles, and the Bahamas?
300
The decade that most of the civil wars in Central America were resolved
What is the 1990s?
400
The natural disaster that is prevalent in Mexico due to being located on tectonic plates
What is earthquake?
400
The landform prevalent in Central America has made these two things difficult for the people
What is communication and transportation?
400
Government leader of Cuba for almost 50 years
Who is Fidel Castro?
400
Name the single most important migration movement that established the Caribbean
What is colonialism?
400
Percentage of Caribbean islands actually populated
What is 2%?
500
Name the three main types of tourism Mexico receives (Open ended on the test)
What is Me tourism, Experience tourism, and drug tourism?
500
A person of indigenous and European heritage
What is a mestizo?
500
This natural disaster impacted Central America in the 1990s, and set back their reconstruction efforts after the civil war
What is Hurricane Mitch?
500
The slave trade allowed people of African ancestry to have a great influence on this element in the Caribbean
What is culture?
500
Approximate amount of islands located in the Caribbean
What is over 750?