Historical Figures
Who is known for emotional self-portraits and is a prominent Latin American artist?
Who is Frida Khalo?
What term describes the native people to a particular area?
What is Indigenous?
What were the "3 G's" of the Spanish Conquistador?
What are God, Gold, and Glory?
In which country would you find the majority of the Amazon Rainforest?
What is Brazil?
What is the main language spoken in most of Latin America?
What is Spanish?
He was a Spanish explorer who conquered the Aztec empire.
Who was Hernan Cortez?
What do you call people in Latin America who are part Spanish and part native?
What is Mestizo?
What is the exchange of plants, animals, ideas, diseases, and people between Europe and the Americas?
What was the Columbian Exchange?
What is one harmful environmental modification people of Brazil made to the Amazon?
What are deforestation, logging, cattle grazing, land clearing for farming, or road building.
: What major religion did the Spanish spread in most of Latin America?
What is Christianity/Catholicism?
Which Mexican priest led the independence movement for Mexico?
Who is Father Miguel Hidalgo?
What term refers to those who are part European (Spanish) and part African?
What is Mulatto?
What is the cultural importance of potatoes, tomatoes, corn, tobacco, and cocoa.
Foods exchanged from the Americas to Europe.(originated in the Americas)
Central America is a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land masses.
What is an isthmus?
It's the largest in South America, Portuguese speaking, and importer of roughly 40% of all slaves brought from Africa.
What is Brazil?
Who inspired the Mestizos and led the independence movement for northern South America?
Who is Simon Bolivar?
This group, not born in Spain but Spanish, and not Native American, led the revolutionary movements across much of central and South America to free the Americas from Spain.
Who were the Creoles?
What is the term for the spreading of cultural beliefs from one group to another?
What is Cultural Diffusion?
It involved cutting into mountain sides to create flat fields for crops, essential for farming in mountainous regions.
What was terrace farming?
Its origins are from the traditions of the Aztec and Maya peoples of what is now Mexico and Central America as a way to remember their ancestors.
What is Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead.
This muralist painted about Aztecs and the Mexican worker, focusing on political issues.
Who is Diego Rivera?
Unlike the democracies in most of Latin America, Cuba has what type of government?
What is an autocracy, dictatorship, or communism.
Ethnic groups were mixed, beliefs were intertwined, and cultural recipes now require ingredients from both Europe and the Americas.
What were results of the Columbian Exchange?
This was home to the Maya civilization and now a popular tourist attraction.
What is the Yucatan Peninsula?
Latin America is a cultural blend of what three groups?
Who are Native, European, and African?