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100
This was a game played by the Mayas similar to basketball
What is pok-ta-tok?
100
Incas used these to spread news from one place to another in the empire
What are runners?
100
This man conquered the Aztecs
Who was Hernan Cortes?
100
Another name for military rulers who ruled very strictly in Latin America
Who were caudillos?
100
This treaty divided South America in half at the Line of Demarcation
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
200
Another name for corn, an important crop for the Mayans
What is maize?
200
The Incan empire was located in these five modern countries
What is Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina?
200
This man conquered the Incas
Who was Francisco Pizarro?
200
This is made up of the ways that goods and services are produced and made available to people.
What is the economy?
200
Many people in Latin America are moving from the rural areas of the country to this
What is the urban or city areas?
300
The Mayans developed this system of writing using signs and symbols
What is hieroglyphics?
300
The capital of the Incan empire was this city
What is Cuzco?
300
His call for revolution in Mexico became known as the "Cry of Dolores"
Who was Miguel Hidalgo?
300
People of mixed Spanish and Native American descent were called this
What is mestizos?
300
This country in Latin America won independence without fighting
What is Brazil?
400
The Aztecs built this magnificent city at the site of present-day Mexico City
What is Tenochtitlan?
400
The system of canals and this allowed the Incas to irrigate land that was otherwise too dry to grow crops
What are aqueducts?
400
In 1821, this man declared Mexico independent
Who was Agustin de Iturbide?
400
This is an agreement in writing between two or more countries
What is a treaty?
400
The son of the king of Portugal, he declared Brazil's independence
Who was Dom Pedro?
500
Most people in the Aztec empire had this job
What is a farmer?
500
The Incas referred to themselves as this.
What is "children of the sun?"
500
These two men worked to kick out Spanish forces from South America
Who was Jose de San Martin and Simon Bolivar?
500
This is a political movement in which the people overthrow the government and set up another government
What is a revolution?
500
Brazil gave land to landless peasants by moving them here
What is the Amazonian rain forest?