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Mexico
Physical Geography of South America
Famous Places of Latin America
The Rainforest
Ancient Civilizations
100
The official language of Mexico.
What is Spanish?
100
Just covering 8416 square miles and with a population of almost 5 million, this country is the smallest and most densely populated in Central America.
What is El Salvador?
100
These people are of mixed Mexican and European descent and make up 60% of the population of Mexico.
What is Mestizo.
100
This people is the original tribe of the Amazon Rain forest.
What is the Yanomami tribes?
100
These two ancient civilizations used wood and skin drums, as well as bone scrapers and shakers to make music.
What is the Aztecs and Mayas?
200
89% of Mexico's population is this religion.
What is Roman Catholic?
200
This is the smallest South American country and got its name from being directly over the equator.
What is Ecuador?
200
In this country 92% of the population over 15 years of age can read and write.
What is Mexico?
200
In this century the Brazilian government started to encourage people to settle in the area of the Amazon rain forest.
What is the 1960s?
200
American Indian people who have lived in western central Mexico for at least 3000 years.
What is The Maya?
300
This city contains The Museum of Mexican History that houses artifacts ranging from ancient to modern times.
What is Monterrey?
300
The only land-locked country in South America.
What is Bolivia?
300
A large portion of this countries population is mixed European, African, and American Indian descent.
What is Brazil?
300
This precious organic material is what caused miners to invade the Yanomami's land.
What is gold.
300
The ancient Incas of Cuzco spoke this language and it is the most widely spoken American Indian language today.
What is Quechua?
400
This is the holiday name and date of when the Mexicans pay respects to the dead.
What is the Day of the Dead on November second.
400
The mountain range stretching from the top to the bottom of South America.
What is the Andes mountain range.
400
Most of Latin America was taken over by these two European countries.
What is Spain and Portugal
400
This method is used the most to clear large plots of rain forest quickly.
What is fire?
400
Instead of paying taxes this ancient civilization assigned their people regular work on government land.
What is the Incas?
500
Mexico takes fifth in the production of this precious resource.
What is oil production?
500
These two countries border the largest navigable lake in the world, Lake Titicaca.
What is Bolivia, and Peru.
500
This is one of the largest cities in the world and is rich in Mexican culture.
What is Mexico City?
500
The method by which the Yanomami people preserve their land.
What is shifting cultivation.
500
At 10 children in this ancient civilization were leagaly responsible for their actions and could be sentenced to punishment.
What is the Aztec?