| Question |
Answer |
| What is the area now called where the Aztecs built a great civilization? | Valley of Mexico |
| What ancient civilization built roads and aqueducts? | Incas |
| What were Spain's two most important provinces in the Americas? | New Spain and Peru |
| To develop and control their own economies, Latin American countries are limiting ____ and emphasizing cooperation with one another. | foreign investments |
| What was the first European colony in the Americas to win independence? | Haiti |
| What two leaders contributed to independence in South America? | Jose de San Martin and Simon Bolivar |
| Most of the caudillos who ruled Latin American countries after independence were concerned mainly with getting ____ and holding power. | rich |
| Foreign companies made huge ____ but did little to help Latin American economies. | profits |
| Copan and Tikal were cities that were part of what civilization? | Mayan |
| The city of Tenochtitlan was the center of what civilization? | Aztec |
| The Incan civilization was located along the western coast of what? | South America |
| The ____ was an imaginary line that divided control of the territory in the Americas between what two countries? | Spain and Portugal |
| Brazil was once a colony of what European country? | Portugal |
| When the price of oil rose in the 1980's, prices for Latin American goods did what? | Dropped |
| The result of the Treaty of Tordesillas is that the language and background of present-day Brazil are what? | Portuguese |
| Born in Latin America with Spanish parents | criollo |
| Mayan signs and symbols | hieroglyphics |
| agreement between two countries | treaty |
| used to carry water to dry areas | aqueduct |
| military officer who rules strictly | caudillo |
| mixed spanish and native american blood | mestizo |
| plantation owned by spanish | hacienda |
| spanish conquerors | conquistador |
| corn | maize |
| spend money to earn more money | invest |
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