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Geography Test 1-19

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1519   Spanish Conquest  
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1521   Spanish Conquest ends  
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1821   Mexican Independence  
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mid 1800s   Benito Juarez becomes president of Mexico; Spain had ruled up until this times  
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1917   New constitutions is passed, gives half of farmland to peasants- Mexico  
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1929   Institutional Revolutional Party established in Mexico  
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Highest Birthrate   Haiti - 28  
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Highest Deathrate   Uruguay-10  
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Highest Infant Mortality Rate   Haiti-42  
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Highest Total Fertility Rate   French Guiana-3.5  
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Highest Male Life Expectancy   Martinique-79  
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Highest Female Life Expectancy   Martinique-85  
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Highest Life Expectancy for Both Genders   Martinique-82  
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Highest GNI PPP   Trinidad & Tribago - 26,000  
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Highest Population <15   Guatemala - 40  
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Highest Population 65+   Marinique & Puerto Rico - 17  
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Lowest Birthrate   Puerto Rico - 10  
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Lowest Deathrate   French Guiana - 3  
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Lowest Infant Mortality Rate   Cuba - 4.2  
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Lowest Total Fertility Rate   Antigua + Barbuda & Puerto Rico & St. Lucia - 1.5  
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Lowest Male Life Expectancy   Haiti - 61  
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Lowest Female Life Expectancy   Haiti - 65  
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Lowest Life Expectancy for Both Genders   Haiti - 64  
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Lowest GNI PPP   Haiti - 1,750  
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Lowest Population <15   Cuba - 17  
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Lowest Population 65+   Haiti & Belize - 4  
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2000   National Actions Party's Vicente Fox becomes president of Mexico  
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1970   Mexico's 1970 population doubles by 2000  
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800s   Mayans abandoned many cities  
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1823   United Provinces of Central America formed  
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1830s   United Provinces split apart  
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1492   Columbus though he'd reached the East Indies  
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1800s   Spanish, French, English, Danish, Dutch all claim islands (Central America and the Caribbean); South American countries seek independence  
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1804   Haiti achieves independence from France  
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1898   Spanish-American War gives Cuba independence from Spain  
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1962   Jamaica, Trinidad, and Tobago become independent from Britain  
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1914   Panama Canal is finished  
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Populations of 30-40 million   both Central America and the Caribbean have populations this big  
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1500   Inca Empire stretched 2500 miles  
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Chile's literacy rates and school attendees age   95% adult literacy rate; 98% young people literacy rate/ ages 6-13 attend school  
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1494   Treaty of Tordesillas  
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____ natives in Brazil in _____ before colonists arrive   1.5 million; 1500s  
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1815   Brazil seeks independence after Napoleon's defeat  
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1822   Brazil declares independence in September  
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In Brazil ___% lived in cities in ____; in _____, ___% lived in cities   22%, 1960; 1995, 75%  
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__% of Brazil's population live within ___ miles of ocean   80%, 200  
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_____ million acres of rain forests worldwide destroyed annually   50 million  
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Rainforests cover ____% of earths surface, but has ___% of plant and animal species   6%, 50%  
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