Ancient/Indigenous People
This term refers to the people of mixed African and European descent in Latin America.
What is Mulatto?
This country is known for being a significant transit and drug-producing nation
What is Mexico?
This term describes people of mixed Indigenous and European descent in Central America.
What is Mestizo?
This empire was the largest pre-Columbian empire in America, centered in Cusco, Peru.
What is the Inca Empire?
These two major languages dominate the linguistic landscape of Latin America.
What are Spanish and Portuguese?
This civilization is known for its advanced written language and flourished in the Yucatan Peninsula.
What is the Mayan Empire?
This significant cultural practice in Mexico combines Indigenous and Roman Catholic traditions.
What is Día de los Muertos?
One significant influence on the food culture of Central America is this.
What are Indigenous or Spanish influences?
This South American country is the largest and primarily speaks Portuguese.
What is Brazil?
This term refers to the large-scale removal of trees from forested areas, often resulting in damage to land quality.
What is deforestation?
This agricultural technique used by the Aztecs involved floating gardens.
What are chinampas?
This brought over new diseases, plants and animal species.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This waterway connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and was constructed between 1904 and 1914
What is the Panama Canal?
This river, the second longest in the world, flows through several South American countries and is vital for transportation and ecosystems
What is the Amazon River?
This narrow strip of land connects North America to South America and is known as this.
What is the Isthmus of Panama?
This indigenous group ruled Central Mexico until the Spanish conquest in the 1500s.
What are the Aztecs?
This trade route involved the forced transportation of 10-15 million Africans to the Americas between the 15th and 19th centuries.
What is the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade?
Many Central American countries have faced these challenges throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
What is political instability, poverty, and civil wars?
Brazil is known for this vibrant festival that highlights its cultural pride.
What is Carnival?
The Amazon rainforest is significant for its biodiversity as it is home to this percentage of all known species on Earth.
What is 10%?
Referred to as the Natives of Latin America
What is an Indigenous people?
This was the capital of the Aztec Empire that is now Mexico City
What is Tenochtitlan?
Central America briefly joined this empire before seceding in 1823.
What is the Mexican Empire?
This vast region, known for its rich biodiversity and extensive rainforests, is primarily drained by the Amazon River and is mainly located in Brazil
What is the Amazon Basin?
The Amazon rainforest plays a vital role in regulating the Earth's climate by absorbing this greenhouse gas
What is carbon dioxide?