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This is what you call a tango dance party.
What is a milonga?
100
This is the style of dance that is originally from Argentina.
What is tango?
100
This is the name of the most isolated inhabited island off the coast of Chile.
What is Easter Island?
100
During the same time of the North American Civil war, a civil war was happening in South America between which two political parties?
Who are the unitarians and federalists?
100
These were Spanish explorers, or conquerers.
What are conquistadors?
200
This is specifically a popular style of Uruguayan musical theatre.
What is murga?
200
A prominent female figure who worked to set up hospitals, schools, civic programs, and was well loved by society.
Who was Eva Peron?
200
This is the name of the statues on the island off the coast of Chile.
What are the moai?
200
Juan Domingo Peron was ______________ to Spain, meaning he was banned, or exiled.
What is excommunication?
200
This is the name of the mountain range separating Chile and Argentina.
What are the Andes?
300
This is what you might call a Latin American cowboy.
What is a goucho?
300
This is a Latin American poet or minstrel singer.
What is a troubadour?
300
A sacred ceremonial place where many moai stand.
What is an ahu?
300
Explicitly political music that blended Chilean folk music with progressive politics.
What is nueva cancion?
300
An instrument similar to the accordion that is essential to tango music.
What is a bandoneon?
400
A profound blend of African-Latin music brought over by the Bantu slaves in the 18th and 19th Century.
What is candombe?
400
Argentine President elected in 1946, and overthrown by a coup in 1952.
Who is Juan Domingo Peron?
400
This is a dance that imitates a rooster and a hen, and ends in in a love story.
What is a cueca?
400
This political party wanted relatively autonomous areas.
What are federalists?
400
Famous Argentine tango composer.
Who is Astor Piazzolla?
500
What the Uruguayan people called "authoritarian land owners."
What is a caudillismo?
500
An Argentine patriot who worked to liberate Argentina, Chile, and Peru.
Who is Jose de San Martin?
500
A traditional form of musical storytelling.
What is a tonada?
500
This political party wanted a strong central government.
What are unitarians?
500
This is the word that means "many rhythms."
What are polyrhythms?