What are the Native people of Latin America referred as?
Indigenous
100
What great civilization lived near what is now Mexico City?
Aztec
100
What was the name given to the Spanish soldiers who invaded Latin America?
Conquistador
100
What is it called when the mother or grandmother is the dominate one in the family?
What is Matriarch
100
What is called when highly skilled workers and educated people leave a country for better Work and pay
What is Brain Drain
200
The indigenous people of Latin America are the decedents of people who migrated 40,000-60,000 years ago from what continent?
Asia
200
This was the Mayan capital that had schools, hospitals, and sporting arenas
What is Tenochtitlan
200
What did the Spaniards bring on the ships that killed thousands of Aztecs?
What is Small Pox
200
Mexican culture is famous for the sport what two sports?
What is Jai Laii, Bullfighting
200
Who was the Mexican Artist who was famous for murals?
What is Diego Rivera
300
Name the 3 main indigenous people of Latin America
Inca, Maya, Aztec
300
Mexico City is considered a?
What is a Primate City
300
The leader of the Spaniard soldiers was?
What is Cortez
300
What is a form of male showmanship in Mexican culture?
What is Machismo
300
What civilization used glyphs to decorate buildings and record their history?
What is Mayans
400
What was the name of the great Aztec leader
Moctezuma
400
What is the Southern part of Mexico where the Mayans lived called
What is the Yucatan Peninsula
400
These people were put in power under Spanish rule
What is Viceroys
400
What did the Mayans invent
What is the Calendar
400
These were floating gardens that the Aztecs used to grow food.
What is Chinampas
500
What is name of the Native people of South America
Inca
500
An important city built high in the Andes Mountains?
What is Mschu Piccu
500
What is the blending of European Spaniards and the Indigenous people of Latin America resulted in the ethnic group called?
What is Mestizo
500
What is this dialect of language that blends Indigenous, European, and Western African Languages and is common in Jamaica and other Caribbean locations.
What is Patois
500
The main group who colonized Latin America includes the?