These were Spanish conquerers who came in search of gold to Latin America.
Who were conquistadors?
100
This civilization found its home in the Andes.
Who are the Inca?
100
A major reason why the natives fell so quickly to European conquerers.
What is disease, technology, or internal war.
100
This man helped lead the Mexican revolt and was a Catholic priest.
Who is Miguel Hidalgo?
100
These people are often tyrants and rule a country with complete power.
What is a dictator?
200
This Italian explorer helped another European discovery of the Americas occur.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
200
This culture was the first culture to meet the Spanish.
Who were the Aztecs?
200
This man conquered the Aztecs.
Who is Cortes?
200
This French African slave colony gained its independence thanks to Toussaint L'Ouverture in 1804.
What is Haiti?
200
The United States backed a revolution in the country of Columbia to create this country in order to build a canal for United States ships to transport goods across.
What is Panama?
300
A Latin American of Spanish origin (non-native)
What is a criollo?
300
This culture disappeared mysteriously.
Who were the Maya?
300
This man conquered the Incans.
Who is Pizarro?
300
This man, the son of a king, declared Brazil independent in 1822 making it a country that became free without a revolutionary war.
Who is Dom Pedro?
300
As reforms came about in Latin America, these types of governments who used force against their people came into power.
What are regimes?
400
This is taken to figure out how many people live in a house so proper taxes can be paid.
What is a census?
400
This Aztec leader met Cortes in what is now present day Mexico City.
Who is Moctezuma / Montezuma?
400
This was the imaginary line that would split South America in two giving claims to Portugese and Spanish colonies.
What is the Line of Demarcation?
400
The most famous of all South American liberators.
Who is Simon Bolivar?
400
This was a major problem in most Latin American nations.
What is foreign debt?
500
This is the term a bigger nation uses for establishing a smaller colony. Hint: The United States was one of these for Britain.
What is a colony?
500
This game was played on Mayan courts.
What is Pok-ta-tok?
500
This capital city of the Incans was defeated by Pizarro in 1535.
What is Cuzco?
500
This country was freed by Bolivar in 1821 by a maneuver which came from the sea rather than over land.
What is Chile?
500
This describes the leaving of goods from ones country to another in trade.