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100
Usually high-ranking military officers or rich men supported by the upper class.
Who are caudillos?
100
The movement of people.
What is migration?
100
One of the two European countries that used to own most of the territory in Latin America.
What are Spain and Portugal?
100
This group of Native Americans replaced the Mayan civilization in Mexico.
Who are the Toltec?
100
The predominant Christian religion in Latin America.
What is Roman Catholic?
200
The form of writing used by the Mayans.
What are Hieroglyphics?
200
The percentage of urban dwellers in South America.
What is 80%?
200
The name for the descendants of a mixture of blacks and white Europeans.
Who are mulattos?
200
They grew maize, controlled jade and made weapons from obsidian.
Who are the Olmec?
200
The head of the household and the chief decision maker in most Latin American countries.
Who is the father?
300
A person of Native American and European ancestry.
Who are Mestizos?
300
Two of four reasons why people in rural areas move to the cities.
What are for better jobs, schools, housing and health care?
300
Created to help people of different backgrounds to communicate by combining several languages into one.
What is a pidgin language?
300
A word used to describe the sole right of a group to be involved in a trade or activity that everyone else is banned from doing.
What is a monopoly?
300
The most popular sport in Brazil and Argentina.
What is soccer?
400
A festival which takes place just before the Christian holy period of Lent.
What is Carnival?
400
Three of the largest urban areas in Latin America.
What are Mexico City, Sao Paulo, and Rio de Janiero?
400
The official language of Brazil.
What is Portuguese?
400
The number system of the Mayans was based on this number.
What is 20?
400
The second country in the world to play baseball.
What is Cuba?
500
Large wall paintings that recall the artistic traditions of the ancient Maya and Aztec.
What are murals?
500
The country in Central America with a relatively low birth rate.
What is Costa Rica?
500
This South American country's population is made up of about 1/2 South Asian or Southeast Asian ancestry.
What is Guyana?
500
The reason slaves were brought from Africa to Latin America.
What is to raise cash crops for the Europeans living in Latin America?
500
The favorite sport in Caribbean countries once ruled by the British.
What is cricket?