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| 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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