before what tribe of indians that established their empire?
Inca
South Americas 12 countries are home to how many people?
415 million
Women can face discrimination and mistreatment there are signs of what?
Change
What is the largest country in south America?
Brazil
Land and what use in south America follow physical geography?
Water
What country did the Inca empire stretch into?
Present day Ecuador to central Chile
South American countries tend to have what population density?
Low
The what kind of relationship in which parents and godparents share in the upbringing of a child is valued in parts of Latin America
compadre
Brazil has become a powerful what in economic terms
Country
Agriculture remains highly important in what?
South America
knotted cords of various lengths and colors used by the Inca keep the finacial records
Quipiu
Countries across the region are experiencing what?
Brain drain
Work codes in Chile and what provide benefits for pregnant employees
Colombia
Economic growth has been steady and strong across the region and has permitted countries to do what?
Pay their foreign debt
Ranching is what in the grasslands?
widespread
What mountain did the Inca establish their empire in?
Andes
Almost half the population is what?
south Asian descent
countrires now provide shelters for what women and enforce stricter pentatiles for offenders
Abused
Several countries in the region have combined their abundance of what with current changes in government and improved economic conditions?
Natural recources
larger commercial and what subsidence agriculture exists side by side
smaller
what are the three indigenous groups of south America?
Eurpoeans, Africans and asians
Immagrants from where also arrived in south America?
Asia
The elevation of women's right has grown as countries have established more stable governments and economies in the past few what?
decades
What year did economic reforms stimulate economic growth?
1990
Natural resource include timber,gold,silver copper iron ore, and what
tin