Latin America

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• Home to 1/5th of the world’s river water:

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• What is the Amazon rainforest?

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• Upper Peru:

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• What is Bolivia?

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• Large grassland that is home to most of Argentinean cities:

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• What is the pampas?

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• Easternmost modern day country on Hispaniola:

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• What is the Dominican Republic?

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• Home to patagonia:

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• What is Argentina?

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• Author of “Grito de Delores,” he stirred up the Mexican people against the Spanish in 1810:

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• Who is Father Miguel Hidalgo?

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• Leader who led a slave uprising, that led to independence, on Hispaniola:

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• Who is Toussaint l’Ouvertoure?

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• French leader whose wars in continental Europe distracted and weakened European colonial powers:

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• Who is Napoleon?

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• Looking for a cheaper method of trading with the east, Ferdinand and Isabella eventually sponsored this Italian sea captain:

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• Who is Christopher Columbus?

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• A Spanish soldier, he eventually defected and led the Mexicans to independence following the new constitution in 1820:

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• Who is Agustin d’Iturbide

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• Shortfall of this method of agriculture is the fact that the farm fields lose its nutrients within a few years:

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• What is “slash and burn?”

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• Credited with the early survival of the Mexica people in Tenochitlan, this farm bed proved to be an efficient use of land:

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• What are chinampas?

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• While it initially came from Europe, this product took off in Latin America, eventually leading to successful plantations, specifically in the islands and Brazil:

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• What is sugar (cane)?

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• Name in the social class system of New Spain, for an Iberian born individual, living in a Spanish colony:

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• What is peninsulare?

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• Unwritten language of the Inca people:

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• What is Quechua?

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• This empire was made up of culturally similar city-states, each ruled by a hereditary monarch:

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• What is Maya Civililzation?

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• This empire was made up of a very small group of core peoples, and surrounded itself with tributary states:

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• What is Aztec civilization?

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• Encomienda means “to entrust,” and this institution is largely responsible for entrusting wealthy peninsulare and creole planters with this:

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• What is the labor of native peoples?

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• Made up of escaped slaves, some of these settlements lasted for centuries, while most were found within a few years:

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• What is maroon?

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• This Aztec practice inadvertently led to its demise, as Spanish opposition was able to easily rouse up enemies to Moctezuma:

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• What is ritual human sacrifice?

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• What is llanos?

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• What is Sierre Madre Occidental?

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• What is Guatemala?

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• What is Colombia?

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• What is Paraguay?