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The main food & most

important crop of the Mayas was corn or ?

What is maize?

The Mayas used this form of signs and symbols as

part of their writing system

What is known as hieroglyphics?

Two great cities of the Mayan

Empire?

What are Copan and

Tikal?

In 1325, Aztecs built this capitol city, on a floating island. It is

now known as Mexico City

What is

Tenochtitlan?

(teh nawch tee tlahn)

Aztecs built a great civilization

in this area of Middle America

What is the Valley of Mexico?

A knotted string used by the Incas,

as a method of keeping records

What is a quipu?

One of the many great accomplishments of the Incas, was this method of carrying

water over hundreds of miles to dry land

What is an aqueduct?

The Incas’ method of

keeping count of its population

What is a census?

The Incan civilization was

located on which coast of South

America?

What is the west coast or the

Pacific coast?

Today, descendants of the Incas live

high in the Andes and they speak

What is Quechua?

(KECH wuh)

People of Spanish and Native

American descent

What is a mestizo?

The Line of Demarcation was an imaginary line which

decided control of territory of 2

European countries

What are Spain and Portugal?

When Cortes defeated the Aztecs, he did not have as many soldiers, but he did have other factors on his side

What are disease, horses, superior

weapons and other Native Americans?

In 1494, the Treaty of Tordesillas set a Line of

Demarcation to settle trade rights for Spain, to

its west, and Portugal east of it, which is mostly

what country?

What is Brazil?

A similarity shared by the

Aztec and Incan people

What is being conquered by the Spanish?

Haiti was inspired towards

independence by two other

revolutions of note

What were the American

Revolution and the people’s uprising in

France?

Spain divided its territory into

provinces. 2 of the most important

were called?

What are Peru

and

New Spain?

Toussaint L’Ouverture was the leader of the

rebellion which won the first independence of this Latin American

country?

What is Haiti?

Simon Bolivar help lead the fight for independence of

Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Panama,

known as?

What is the

Gran Colombia?

Strict rulers who were concerned

mostly with getting rich and holding

power

What is a caudillo?

(kaw dee yoh)

Trade between Mexico, Canada and

the United States was made easier due

to this agreement?

What is NAFTA?

North American Free Trade Agreement

The cause of economic hard

times in the 1980s when oil prices

went up

What is Latin American countries

borrowed money from wealthy

countries?

Recently Latin American countries

have tried to improve their economies by

forming what?

What are trade organizations?

True/False

Foreign countries often controlled the economies of Latin

American Countries

What is true?

What has become of Aztec

chinampas in today’s world?

What is

farmers use it as farmland ?