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Latin American Environment and Land
Early Latin American Civilizations
Conquistadors
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100
Air pollution is a major environmental problem in this city.
What is Mexico City?
100
The Aztec Empire was located in this present-day country.
What is Mexico?
100
Conquistador means this.
What is conqueror?
100
What country did Toussaint L'Ouverture help gain independence?
What is Haiti?
100
This is the most commonly practiced religion in Latin America.
What is Roman Catholicism?
200
These two things are losing their homes because of the destruction of the Brazilian rainforest.
What are plants and animals?
200
The Inca Empire was located in this present-day country.
What is Peru?
200
This man conquered the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
200
This man is known as the "The Liberator" of South America?
Who is Simon Bolivar?
200
These are the two most commonly spoken languages in Latin America.
What are Spanish and Portuguese?
300
This is one reason why the Brazilian rainforest has been cut down recently.
What is because Brazil's population has increased so much that the rainforest needs to be cut down to create farms?
300
This was the name of the last known leader of the Aztecs.
What is Montezuma?
300
This man conquered the Inca Empire.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
300
This is one of the six countries that Simon Bolivar helped to liberate.
What is Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, or Panama?
300
This term refers to the exchange of crops, animals, people, and diseases between the Old World and the New World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
400
This is why most Venezuelan people live in cities.
What is because only 3% of the land in Venezuela is arable?
400
This was the name of the last known leader of the Inca Empire.
What is Atahualpa?
400
This caused the native population to decline and made it easier for the conquistadors to conquer the Aztec and the Inca Empires.
What is disease?
400
This man is known as the "Father of Mexican Independence?"
Who is Miguel Hidalgo?
400
This animal helped change society in the New World by providing a new form of transportation.
What is the horse?
500
This why oil spills and oil pollution is a major problem in Venezuela.
What is because Venezuela is a leading producer of oil and has been for 100 years?
500
The Mayas, the Aztecs, and the Incas all performed sacrifices to do this.
What is to please and honor the gods?
500
These two European countries occupied Central and South America from the 1500s to the 1800s.
What are Spain and Portugal?
500
This is why Miguel Hidalgo did not live to see Mexico gain independence.
What is he was tried and executed as a traitor 10 years before Mexico gained its independence.
500
This is why there was a need for slave labor in the New World.
What is many natives had died from war and disease and slaves were needed to work the land.