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Latin America
Vocabulary
• a set of leather • bolas
cords and three
iron balls or
stones thrown at
the legs of
animals to
capture them
• a pipe or channel
used to carry
water from a
distant source
to dry areas
• Developed by
the Incas
• aqueduct
• campesino
• landless
peasants or
poor farmers
• a Latin
American
military
officer who
ruled strictly
• Example:
Porfirio Diaz
• caudillo
• a person born of
Spanish parents
born outside of
Spain; often among
the best-educated
and wealthiest
people in the
Spanish colonies
• criollo
Jose Marti
• a rock-like
substance
formed from
the skeletons
of tiny sea
animals
• coral
• To add variety,
expand
• diversify
• Example:
Venezuela’s
economy – from
oil to factories
and farms
• nomadic
• gaucho
cowboys of the
mid-18th
century who
roamed the
Pampas
• conquerors working
for the Spanish
government who
were in charge of
gaining land and
wealth in the
Americas
• Heranado Cortez;
Francisco Pizzaro
• conquistador
• plantation owned
by the Spanish
settlers or the
Catholic church
in Spanish
America
• hacienda
• a system of
writing using
signs and
symbols
• Highly developed
by the Mayan
• hieroglyphics
• maize
• both the plant
and the kernel
of corn
• section of
waterway in
which ships
are raised or
lowered by
adjusting the
water level
• lock
Panama Canal
• A narrow strip
of land that
has water on
both sides and
joins two
larger bodies
of land
• isthmus
• someone who • squatter
settles on
unoccupied
land without
permission or
legal rights
squatter settlement
• a factory, often • maquiladora
on the U.S.Mexico border,
that assembles
goods for export
• Maquiladora
Sony in Tijuana
• Farming that
provides for the
basic needs of the
farmer and his
family
• Subsistence
farming
• a person of
mixed
Spanish and
Native
ancestry
• mestizo
children in Belize
• a person who • migrant worker
moves from
place to place
to find work
• What are the
two types of
islands in the
Caribbean?
• coral
• volcanic
• Name the
three island
groups found
in the
Caribbean.
• Greater Antilles
• Lesser Antilles
• Bahamas
• Name the five
countries of
the Greater
Antilles.
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Cuba
Jamaica
Haiti
Dominican Republic
Puerto Rico
• What are the
two divisions
of the Lesser
Antilles?
• Windward Islands
• Leeward Islands
• What mountain • Andes
range runs
Mountains
through the
western coast
of South
America?
• The driest
desert in the
world is
located in
Chile. What is
its name?
• Atacama
• What region in
South America
has more
vegetation than
any other region
in the world?
• Amazon Rain
Forest
• In many Latin American
countries, would a
campesino earn a lot of
money or little money?
• Where would one find most
maquiladora’s? Why would
an American company want
to own a maquiladora?
• What economic activity is
most likely to occur on the
pampas?
• What is the main religion
practiced in Latin
America?
• Cortez conquered the
Aztec’s at Tenochtitlan.
What city was built on the
ruins of this Aztec capital?
• Pizarro conquered most of
the Incan empire, including
the city of Cuzco. In what
country is Cuzco located?
• Machu Picchu
• What are the three main
ancient civilizations of Latin
America?