The Inca
What did the Inca build into the steep mountains sides to be able to farm and harvest crops?
Terraces
What is Climate Change?
Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns.
What was the title given to the new single leader over the 15 Brazilian Captaincies?
Governor General
What began to occur in the regions of Latin America during the late 18th & early 19th Century?
Revolutions
Which single natural resource was one of the most important resources Europeans wanted to take at the BEGINNING of the colonization of "Brazil"?
Brazilian Red wood
What was a Quipu?
A quipu (pronounced kee-poo) was a special tool used by the Inca Empire to keep records and share information—kind of like a notebook made of knotted strings!
What are at least two major causes to the destruction of the Amazon Rainforest?
Slash and Burn
Make room for cattle farms
Growing population, roads, highways, and Urban Development (new Settlements)
Mining
Logging for wood and paper products
Soybean farms, palm oil farms, etc
What were Captaincies?
Captaincies were a way that some European countries, like Portugal, divided up their new colonies (especially in places like Brazil) to help control and manage them.
What are three of the four revolutions on both sides of the Atlantic ocean that were known to fuel the south American revolutionary movements?
American revolution
Haitian revolution
French revolution
Mexican revolution
What was the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This treaty drew an imaginary line down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Everything unclaimed to the west of the line would belong to Spain, and everything to the east would belong to Portugal.
Who discovered Machu Picchu? When?
Hiram Bingham in 1911
What are at least two major causes to the oil pollution problem of Venezuela?
Rusty and broken pipelines and decaying refineries
Aging infrastructure
a lack of regulations needed to maintain the country's massive oil industry
unrestricted flaring of greenhouse gases
mismanagement of oil production
Government corruption
where and when was the first Portuguese settlement set up in the new territory of Brazil?
Sao Vincente in 1532
Who was Toussaint Louverture? Which revolution was he a part of?
A black freedom fighter and former slave who was a brilliant leader who helped lead the Haitian Revolution and fought to free enslaved people from French rule.
What were the three major effects of colonization and slavery in colonial south america?
Disease, Slavery and Religion
What three natural barriers surround the Incan Empire?
The andes, the Amazon and the Atacama
The amazon rainforest is so large that it contains ___% of the worlds Biodiversity.
10%
What were the Nazca lines?
the “Nazca Lines,” are a series of geometric shapes, extended lines that run for miles, and large drawings of animal figures (some as large as a football field) constructed on the desert floor in the Nazca region of Peru.
Who was Miguel Hidalgo? Which revolution was he a part of?
Miguel Hidalgo was a Mexican priest who sparked the Mexican War of Independence by calling on the people to rise up against Spanish rule in 1810.
How did Napoleon's invasion of Spain open the door for revolution in South America?
Invaded Spain and portugal
removed Spanish king, which weakened Spanish control and allowed for a lack of rule and an opening for independence
The Inca were known to have a Monarchy style of government, what is a monarchy?
Monarchy - a form of government in which supreme authority is vested in a single and usually hereditary figure
Where do the majority of modern people live in south America?
With over 200 million people in South america, most of the population lives near the continent's western and eastern coasts, with the eastern coast being more populated
What as an Ayllu in Incan Society?
An Incan ayllu was a group of families who lived and worked together, sharing land, food, and resources like one big community.
What year did the French Revolution Take place?
Clue: The same year as the creation of the Declaration of men and rights of citizen.
1789
What are at least 2-3 other causes that fueled the start of these Latin American Revolutions?
The spanish set up an unbalance social system in the colonies of the new world, that limit the freedoms of those in the new world.
The social classes of the Creoles growing angry with peninsulares and the spanish rule over them.
Enlightenment ideas start to spread (ideas of freedom and liberty) throughout the world.
Revolutions begin all over the world, for example the American, Mexican, French and Haitian revolution.
Spain’s power begins to weaken, due to Napoleon's french army invading spain and removing the Spanish King.
The introduction of strong leaders and military commanders in the colonies