Incas
What are terraces?
Spain feared this country would be its competition in the Americas for land and riches.
What is Portugal?
Slavery was banned by 1850 in all the Spanish-speaking countries, but not in this country.
What is Brazil?
This is the most commonly spoken language in Brazil.
What is Portuguese?
The Incan civilization was located here.
What is the Andes mountain range?
This imaginary line divided the non-European world into two zones - Spain got the west, Portugal the east.
What is the Line of Demarcation?
He was an upper-class Venezuelan who won independence for Venezuela and other countries.
Who is Simon Bolivar?
This sun deity was one of the most important Incan gods.
Who is Inti?
The language of the Incas
What is Quechua?
Europeans brought these 2 diseases to South America, killing millions of South Americans.
What are smallpox and influenza?
He fought for Argentina’s independence and kicked the Spanish out of Chile.
Who is Jose de San Martin?
A record-keeping device made of knotted strings, used by the Inca to keep records of people or of goods.
What is a quipu?
The last Incan emperor
Who was Atahualpa?
This Spanish explorer arrived in the Andes in the 1530s after hearing rumors of a large, wealthy empire located there.
Who was Francisco Pizzaro?
At this 1824 battle, South Americans gave the Spanish their final defeat.
What is the Battle of Ayacucho?
This Incan city has the most famous ruins today.
What is Machu Picchu?
This was the Inca's greatest engineering feat.
What is the Incan road system?
The Spanish forced natives to work in these 2 settings, then later brought enslaved Africans to do the work.
What are silver mines and sugar plantations?
Colonists in South America became unhappy with Spanish rule because they had no real power, government officials were named in Spain, they had no say in the laws or how they were governed, and this reason.
What is "they were forced to trade only with Spain"?
Besides seeking wealth, why did the Spanish conquer land in South America?
What is converting Natives to Catholicism?