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There's a map for that
1492
Let's go bananas
Dinero
My country 'tis of thee
100
This area refers to the states that form the conical southern part of the continent: Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
What is the Southern Cone?
100
The main, Iberian rival of the Spanish in "the New World," where they competed for colonial expansion.
Who are the Portuguese?
100
This US based corporation was the largest landholding "family" in Guatemala by the 1950s, but its treatment of its peasant employees led to a national revolt in 1954. Today it's known by the dancing Chiquita banana.
What is the United Fruit Company (UFC)?
100
These three international financial institutions lend money and direct economies policies in Latin American countries (and around the world), for instance, by prescribing structural adjustment programs.
What are the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank?
100
This Central American isthmus was a northwestern province of Colombia until the U.S. set it's sights on building a canal there.
What is Panama?
200
Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela share this mountain range.
What are the Andes Mountains?
200
After a stop-over at the Canary Islands, Columbus landed at this group of islands, which he called "San Salvador." Today these islands are better known as a vacation destination.
What are the Bahamas?
200
Toussaint Loverture led the 1791 slave rebellion here, leading to the 1803 establishment of a free black state.
What is Haiti?
200
Part of the neoliberal economic model, these programs include difficult economic policies such as currency devaluation; cuts in government subsidies, jobs, and services; opening to foreign investment and trade; and privatization.
What are structural adjustment programs (SAPs)?
200
A U.S. protectorate until 1924, this nation did not win its sovereignty until December 31, 1999.
What is Panama?
300
This volcanic archipelago's unique biodiversity inspired many of Charles Darwin's reflections on natural selection and evolution, published in his On the Origin of Species.
What are the Galapagos Islands?
300
Signed on June 7th, 1494, this document instituted a line of demarcation dividing the "New World" territories between Spain and Portugal. Lands to the east of the Cape Verde islands belong to Portugal, while lands to the west belonged to Spain.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
300
Loyal to the Crown, these elites often sought to suppress the American-born criollos and their demands for independence.
Who are the peninsulares?
300
This approach argues that the global marketplace is an unfair trading ground for most former colonies of the global South and that international economies constitute a neo-colonial world in which former colonies participate in a trading structure formerly imposed by colonial powers for their own benefit, not for the colony's benefit.
What is dependency theory?
300
Unlike its neighbors, this Central American country was not colonized by Spain or Portugal, but by the United Kingdom, and it did not gain its independence until 1964. Today its official language is English.
What is Belize (British Honduras)?
400
The world's driest desert which runs along the winding coast of Chile.
What is the Atacama desert?
400
Three major pre-Columbian American empires, some of whose indigenous descents still live in the region.
Who are the Mayans, Incas, and Aztecas?
400
Most of these wealthy landholders were unelected, de facto sheriffs and judges, administering their own law with the help of private militias.
Who are caudillos?
400
A new strategy designed to allow Latin American countries to break out of the cycle of importing expensive goods while exporting cheap ones, this fundamentally nationalist strategy prioritized national development goals over participation in a global economy.
What is import substitution industrialization (ISI)?
400
While Middle Eastern countries such as Saudi Arabia provide the oil that fuels your car, some originates in this South American country.
What is Venezuela?
500
Social scientists generally divide the Caribbean into these two subunits.
What are the Greater and Lesser Antilles?
500
By the time Columbus arrived, indigenous populations (Inca) had already experimented with this advanced medical procedure.
What is skull surgery?
500
Many Latin American countries depended on this economic strategy, growing one or two major crops for export.
What is monoculture?
500
When it failed to gain support outside of the United States and a few Latin American countries, this program fell through. It envisioned a Western Hemisphere free-trade area (minus Cuba), an expansion of NAFTA that could compete with the European Union.
What is the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)?
500
President Salvador Allende nationalized this country's copper industry, wresting control away from the U.S. based Anaconda Copper - that is until a CIA backed military coup killed Allende in 1973.
What is Chile?