Ancient Civilizations
3 Ancient Civilizations found in Latin America
What is Inca, Maya, and Aztec?
Mountains in the western part of South America run roughly parallel to the Pacific Ocean for more than 5000 miles and are sometimes referred to as the “Spine of South America”?
What is Andes Mountains?
The mix that includes three main cultures
What is
Native American
Spanish
The natural changes that Mexicans have gone through over time
Religion practiced throughout the area
What is Roman Catholicism and a variation of Voodoo
Definition for factors of production
What is conditions needed to create goods and services in an economy, generally land, labor, and capital?
Among the first civilization in the world
known to understand the advanced
mathematical concept of zero
What is the Maya Civilization?
River that cuts through the desert and forms a border between Mexico and the United States?
Languages spoken in Mexico
What is Spanish and Native American languages
Languages spoken in the area
What is depending on the area
Definition for natural resources
What is materials found in nature that are often used for economic gain?
They believed that anyone that died in
battle had the great honor of dying for
Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec god of war
What is the Aztec civilization?
The long river in South America and the one that carries the largest volume of water of any river in the world? It has its beginning in the Andes Mts. of Peru, flows across the northern one-third of Brazil and empties into the Atlantic Ocean?
What is the Amazon River?
For the past 50 years, South America has experienced major urbanization
What is the movement from the countryside to the city
Weaving
Embroidery
Pottery
Silversmithing
Basket Weaving
Definition for deforestation
What is clearing forests to use the area for other purposes?
The Aztec created floating gardens
What is called chinampas?
The mountain range in western Mexico that runs roughly parallel to the Pacific Ocean?
Sierra Madre Occidental
The traditional music of the Andean regions played on flutes and drums
What is huayno
Holiday's set by government including
What is Carnival?
Definition for renewable resource
What is refers to a natural resource that can be replenished naturally?
Known for stone work that was transported by wooden wheels
What is the Inca civilization?
The isthmus that connects Central America and South America?
What is Panama?
Roots that music is derived from
What is African culture, European, and their own culture
Languages spoken in Central America
What is Spanish and around 80 Native languages in the area?
Definition for non-renewable resource
What is refers to natural resources that cannot be remade or replenished?