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Explorer who reached the Americas in 1492
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100

This civilization had a huge road system and a language that involved ropes.

What is the Inca civilization?

100
People of mixed Spanish and Native American descent
Who are Mestizos?
100

These two world events influenced the independence movement in Latin America.

What are The American Revolution in North America, and the French Revolution in France?

100
new trade routes to Asia
What is what the European explorers hoped to achieve by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean?
200
The ex-slave who led Haiti to independence
Who is Toussaint L'Ouverture?
200

Civilization with a major writing system and complex calendar. 

Maya

200

guns, cannons, horses, disease

What Europeans used to defeat the Native Americans.

200

wealthy and well-educated people in the Spanish colonies, but with little political power.

Who are creoles? 

200

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

What is the agreement between Mexico and the United States that ended the Mexican American War and established the borders between the countries?

300

Cuban President that nationalized the economy and made the nation communist

Fidel Castro

300

Civilization known for conquering others and building a city on a lake. 

What is Aztec civilization?

300

What two countries have tried to build the Panama canal? (Besides Panama)

France and the United States

300

Enocomiendas

Spanish plantation and labor system that used slave and indigenous people's labor. 

300

What is the Columbian Exchange?

Trade routes between Europe, Africa, and the Americas after Columbus's voyages and the increase in European exploration. 

400
The Aztec ruler in 1519
Who is Moctezuma?
400

The image on the Mexican flag is based on a myth from which civilization?

Aztec

400
Conquistadors
Who were Spanish explorers?
400
the greatest Latin American revolutionary leader
Who is Simon Bolivar?
400
Why was the Haitian Revolution not supported by/disliked by so many nations?

It made them fearful of slave revolts, it was led by black people who became the political leaders, and the United States supported the French refugees. 

500

Priest who was dedicated to getting political and social rights for the indigenous people of South America (native people)

Bartolome De Las Casas

500

What is the major city of the Aztecs?

Tenochtitlan

500

What nation supported Cuba in the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis? 

The Soviet Union

500

How did Brazil get its independence? From what country?

The King of Portugal granted independence to Brazil, there was no revolution

500

Name three things traded on the Columbian Exchange. 

Guns, enslaved people, tobacco, maize, tomatoes, potatoes, cows, horses, pigs, beans, finished goods from Europe, gold, silver, ideas, disease...