Ancient Latin America
He is known for capturing, ransoming, and later killing the Sapa Inca Atahualpa.
Who is Pizarro?
The local councils who ruled in the Spanish colonies while Napoleon's brother sat on the Spanish throne.
What are cabildos?
The two most common types of jobs the indigenous were forced to do when conquered by the Spanish.
What is mining and farming?
The mountain chain where the Incan Empire flourished.
What is the Andes Mountains?
The term used for Spanish soldier-explorers in the early Americas.
What is "conquistador?"
Born in Latin America, but of European ancestry.
What is criollo or creole?
The second largest country in Latin America by area.
What is Argentina?
You could describe the Aztecs, Mayas, and Incas as being this, meaning worshiping many gods.
What is polytheistic?
He is credited with the Portuguese "discovery" of Brazil.
Who is Pedro Álvares Cabral?
A former slave that led a fight for independence for Haiti.
Who is Toussaint L'Ouverture?
The two languages spoken most commonly in Latin America.
What is Spanish and Portuguese?
The Spanish controlled this large group of islands in the Pacific until 1898.
What are the Philippines?
The century that Mexico gained its independence?
What is 19th Century?
The first and second most populous countries in Latin America.
What are Brazil and Mexico?