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100
Contact between the Western and Eastern Hemispheres created tension, but also led to the this—a mixing of people, goods, and cultures from across the world.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
100
This fortified Inca city more than 7,000 feet above sea level in the Andes Mountains was terraced and aqueducts were built for irrigation.
What is Machu Picchu?
100
Resources that can be manufactured, processed, or combined to create a new and useful product- in Latin America these include examples such as coffee, sugar, gold and silver.
What are raw materials?
100
In Latin America, a handful of places are still officially ruled by other nations. In South America, French Guiana is ruled as an overseas department of this country.
What is France?
200
These 2 countries were the most influential European colonizing nations in Latin America.
What are Spain and Portugal?
200
The Aztec developed these floating islands to plant fruit trees, vegetables, and flowers.
What are chinampas?
200
Activities associated with this sector of the economy include sales, entertainment, and health care. In Caribbean countries, services such as banking and, especially, tourism are important for the economies.
What is the tertiary sector?
200
To support their own interests, foreign companies often supported this type of government in Latin America.
What are dictatorships?
300
A language that developed from a mixing and blending of languages.
What is a creole?
300
Believed to be the first native peoples that Christopher Columbus encountered on his voyage to the Americas, this group used slash-and-burn agriculture to grow corn and cassava.
Who are the Arawak?
300
After gaining independence from their colonizers, there was little effort to develop this sector of the economy, instead, Latin American countries continued to export their raw materials abroad.
What is the secondary sector?
300
Today, almost all countries in Latin America have either a presidential or this type of democracy.
What is parliamentary?
400
Indigenous Latin Americans had their own systems of religious beliefs including this belief--in more than one god—and a series of ceremonies and rituals.
What is polytheism?
400
A rail line is known as the Tren a las Nubes (Train to the Clouds) because at times along its nearly 135-mile journey, the train may be either in or above the clouds, are equipped with these medical devices and a full medical staff to assist passengers suffering from altitude sickness because the air may be so thin at it's highest point-- 2.5 miles above sea level!
What are oxygen masks?
400
Founded in 1899, and heavily involved in the affairs of Latin America, the US based company United Fruit merged with Eli M. Black's AMK in 1970 to become the United Brands Company. In 1984, Carl Lindner, Jr. transformed United Brands into this present-day company.
What is Chiquita Banana?
400
In the Caribbean, the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, and the small nation of Saint Kitts and Nevis are also all parliamentary democracies that retain some ties to this country.
What is Great Britain?
500
In 2017, Flor de Toloache is an all-female band founded in New York City, won a grammy for this type of traditional latin music.
What is mariachi?
500
Completed in 1914, this artificial waterway was built to provide easy passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
500
Built in Latin America as early as 1870, this Rail Road represents an investment in Latin American ______ by United Fruit.
What is infrastructure?
500
In a parliamentary democratic system of government, there is no directly elected chief executive. Instead, voters only elect representatives to this branch of government.
What is the legislative branch?