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A person who has complete control over a country's government.
What is a dictator?
100
A country that depends on just one product for almost all its jobs and income.
What is a single-product economy?
100
The dictator of Cuba.
Who is Fidel Castro?
100
Led a revolt in 1837 emerging as a new leader for Guatemala.
Who is Rafael Carrera?
100
The capital of Cuba.
What is Havana?
200
The first European country to colonize the Caribbean.
What is Spain?
200
The most important product for the Caribbean Islands during the Colonial Period.
What is sugar cane?
200
In this system the government owns the country's farms, factories, and businesses.
What is communism?
200
He became president of Guatemala in 1951.
Who is Jacobo Arenz Guzman?
200
A style of music created in Jamaica.
What is reggae?
300
Opened in 1914 connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans becoming one of the most important transportation routes in the world.
What is the Panama Canal?
300
To invest in a variety of industries.
What is diversify?
300
Holiday that takes place each year at the end of July.
What is Carnival?
300
Guatemala's dominant industry.
What is agriculture?
300
Islands of the Caribbean are known as.
What is the West Indies?
400
People in the Caribbean with African and European ancestry.
Who are Mulattos?
400
The most widespread religion in the West Indies.
What is Roman Catholicism?
400
Poor health due to a lack of eating the right kinds of food.
What is malnutrition?
400
What Guatemala's 22 states are called.
What are departamentos?
400
People of mixed European and Native American ancestry.
What are ladinos?
500
A place that is governed by or closely connected with another country.
What is a dependency?
500
The most common language spoken in Central America.
What is Spanish?
500
A period of conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union.
What is the Cold War?
500
Only 15% of Guatemalan's attend this.
What is high school?
500
War in 1898 giving Cuba its freedom.
What is the Spanish-American War?