Early South American Cultures
This was the main way Andean peoples changed their environment to grow more food.
What is terrace farming?
This is the Incan Mita System.
What is labor as payment for taxes?
This is where most South Americans live.
What is in the cities?
Countries focus on the production of what they can make most efficiently. In Colombia, they rely on the production of this delicious morning beverage.
What is coffee?
This is the capital of Brazil.
What is Brasilia?
This is why some groups in South America continue to live as nomads after the development of agriculture.
What is poor soil, lack of water, and harsh climates?
This is a benefit (good outcome), that the people under Incan rule could count on, even though they had limited freedom.
What is government support/help during a crisis like a natural disaster for example?
This is how Brazil's history differs from the history of most countries in South America.
What is the fact that it was colonized by Portugal not Spain?
This is the amount of money a country makes through the production of goods and services in a particular time period (typically a year).
What is GDP (Gross Domestic Product)?
This mountain range is located along the western coast of South America.
What is the Andes Mountains?
This is what early Andean people did to help get water where it was needed.
What is they built irrigation channels in the terraces?
The social hierarchy of the Incas ranked people according to this.
What is their importance?
This shows the strong influence of African traditions in Brazil.
What is the music and dance during Carnival?
This type of economy has a free market system, but the government creates rules and regulations that influence the economy.
What is a Mixed Economy?
Copper is mined in this desert located in South America.
What is the Atacama Desert?
This was a major factor in why civilizations began to settle in one place.
What is agriculture (the ability to grow their own crops)?
This weakened the Incan empire before the Spanish conquered it.
What is a civil war between Huayna Capac's sons who were fighting over who would rule?
This is how Carnival is an example of cultural exchange in South America.
What is the combination of African dance and European religion?
This type of economy is when people can buy and sell goods and services without government interference.
What is a Free Market/Market Economy?
In the southern cone of South America, you will find these Argentinian cowboys.
What are gauchos?
Because they no longer had to search for food, Andean people had time for other tasks like these.
What is making tools, making clothes, building better shelters, creating pottery, etc.?
This is how quipus are different from records kept by European and Asian societies at around the same time.
What is quipus showed information through a pattern of knots on strings?
Other than size, this is a major difference between Brazil and other South American countries.
What is the fact that its official language is Portuguese?
This is one of the greatest barriers to economic growth in South America.
What is poverty?
What is too much government control?
This innovation is the reason many people moved from more rural areas to the cities in the early 1900s.
What is mechanization (using machines to replace the work of people)?