Vocabulary
The clearing of trees, usually for agricultural purposes
WHAT IS DEFORESTATION?
After he crowned himself emperor in France, much of Europe gets involved in wars, allowing for Latin American independence movements
WHO IS NAPOLEON?
Largest river on Earth ... by far
WHAT IS THE AMAZON?
The Latin American independence movements were inspired by one in North America and one in Europe. Name either ...
WHAT IS THE AMERICAN AND/OR FRENCH REVOLUTIONS?
Type of trade that brought over millions of people to Latin America against their will
WHAT IS THE TRANS-ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE? (Part of the Triangular Trade)
A territory an outside power controls directly.
WHAT IS A COLONY?
Known as the "Liberator" of South America ... was also good at "Simon Says"
WHO IS SIMON BOLIVAR?
The Inca lived in between and in these mountains...
WHAT ARE THE ANDES?
The year that Columbus first sailed from the Old World to the New World
WHAT IS 1492?
Most people in Latin America follow this belief system
WHAT IS CHRISTIANITY? (Catholicism)
Spanish conquerors of the New World who came for gold (natural resources), glory, and God (conversion of natives)
WHAT ARE CONQUISTADORS?
WHO IS FIDEL CASTRO?
The term for the land area in the Western Hemisphere that is south of the USA
WHAT IS LATIN AMERICA?
This botched US-planned invasion of Cuba was a disaster ... and took place in this bay ...
WHAT IS THE BAY OF PIGS?
It became the most successful crop grown in the Caribbean Islands during colonial times
WHAT IS SUGAR?
Intellectual movement of the 1700s characterized by the belief that human reason could improve the world
WHAT IS THE ENLIGHTENMENT?
Led the first Latin American independence movement - a slave revolt in Haiti
WHO IS TOUSSANT L'OUVERTURE?
Two of the three largest islands in the Caribbean Sea ..
WHAT ARE CUBA, HISPANIOLA, JAMAICA?(need 2)
This crisis might be the closest the world has ever come to nuclear war between superpowers....
WHAT IS THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS?
The pre-revolutionary wealthy landowners of Latin America who had a lot of money but little power (the peninsulares ran things)
WHO ARE THE CREOLES?
Europeans who ran the New World empires for Spain and Portugal (from the Iberian peninsula) - had money and power
WHAT ARE PENINSULARES?
Helped win independence for Argentina from Spain, joined with Bernardo O'Higgins in Chile, and Bolivar in Peru
WHO IS JOSE DE SAN MARTIN?
The "Pampas" are the great grasslands of this nation
WHAT IS ARGENTINA?
Name the conquistadors who conquered the Aztecs and Incan Empires in the early 16th centuries
WHO ARE CORTES AND PIZARRO?
What Latin American nation exports the most coffee?
WHAT IS BRAZIL?