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Latin American Geography
Ancient Civilizations
Spanish Conquest
Columbia University
Latin American Independence
100
Largest country in Latin America
What is Brazil?
100
This civilization collapsed prior to European arrival
What is the Mayans?
100
Most famous for discovering the New World
What is Christopher Colombus?
100

2025 Forbes' Top Colleges Rank

What is #2?

100
set of reforms that included the creation of new viceroyalties and expulsion of the Jesuit order
What is the Bourbon Reforms?
200
Shares an island with the Dominican Republic
What is Haiti?
200
Men who was responsible for conquering the Aztecs
What is Hernan Cortes?
200
Men who came to the Americas in search of status and wealth
What is Conquistadores?
200

Columbia University's original name

What is King's College?

200
Took over Spanish Crown during the Napoleonic Wars
What is Joseph Bonaparte?
300
Connects Central and South America
What is Panama?
300
Empire that extended across the Andes
What is the Incas?
300
Known for colonizing Peru
What is Francisco Pizarro?
300

Number of Presidents that are Columbia University alumni

What is 4?

(Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Barack Obama)

300
Bolivar's plan to unite several latin american countries into one
What is Gran Colombia?
400
Only 2 South American Countries that do not border Brazil
What is Ecuador and Chile?
400
Main Leader of the Aztecs
What is Moctezuma II?
400
Name of the supreme governing body created after conquest
What is Council of the Indies?
400

the reason CC students take a swim test and SEAS students do not

What is because if one day Manhattan sinks, CC students would have to swim across the Hudson, but SEAS students could use their engineering skills to build a boat?

400
Hidalgo's profession
What is Priest?
500
Only 2 Landlocked South American Countries
What is Bolivia and Paraguay?
500
Enemies of the Aztecs who helped Cortes
What is the Tlaxcalas?
500
Name of the first 2 viceroyalties created?
What is New Spain and Peru?
500

Percent of Hispanic/Latino students admitted in 2028

What is 19%?

(of 3,000 students only 555 Latinos)

500
Famous phrase coined by Brazil's liberator Dom Pedro I during fight for independence
What is "Independence or Death!"