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6th Grade Ch10
6th Grade Chapter 10 Test Review
Question | Answer |
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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 |