Vocabulary
To put a business under government control.
Nationalize
Norte Chico
This system allowed Incan citizens to pay their taxes by working as a laborer for a period of time.
Mita System
This Portuguese sailor is credited with discovering the area known today as Brazil.
Pedro Cabral
Venezuelan planter who led a revolution against the Spanish forces and liberated many South American countries from colonial rule.
Simon Bolivar
Knotted chords used to keep records and communicate over distances.
Quipu
Most ancient South American civilizations settled in or around this major physical feature in South America.
Andes Mountains
The Inca built more than 15,000 miles-worth of these to connect their empire.
Roads
This was the name of Spain's colony in South America.
Peru
This person was a revolutionary leader in the southern regions of South America.
Jose de San Martin
Rule by a small group of people.
Oligarchy
Early South American civilizations built these to farm in the high mountains.
Terraces
The ruler of the Incan Empire.
Sapa Inca
This economic system forced a colony to trade only with the "mother country."
Mercantilism
This person would cause Brazil to break away from Portugal and become this country's first emperor.
Pedro II
An overthrow of the government.
Coup
Early South American civilizations were considered this because they did not establish a permanent home.
Nomads
The Inca were able to build their stone buildings so precisely that they did not need to have this substance.
Mortar
These people were slave catchers who would trek into the jungles of South America to enslave native people or return runaway slaves.
Bandiera
Many countries faced this after winning independence.
Someone who advocates for the ending of slavery.
Abolitionist
Early South American cultures did this to local animals in order to harvest resources from them or use them to carry heavy loads.
Domesticate
This Spanish conquistador is credited with conquering the Incan Empire.
Fransico Pizzaro
This treaty established that Spain would control the western half of the world and Portugal would control the eastern half.
Treaty of Tordesillas
This group would often take control in Brazil after the fall of the monarchy.
Military