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40 Cards in this Set
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Name the 10 spanish speaking countries of latin america |
bolivia, chile, columbia, ecuador, guyana, paraguay, peru, uruguay, and venezuela |
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Who liberated columbia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia |
Simom Bolivar |
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Jose de san martin? |
liberated argentina, chile and peru |
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what south american country has few indians? |
Chile, unlike other south american countries |
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What did the road system provide? Where? How long? |
communication and messages fast, on quipus, 20,000 miles |
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what language was suriname colonized by |
dutch |
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where did forced natives labor in? |
on mines, farms and raches |
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where did the forced natives move to |
plantations where they worked to death |
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how many natives speak what language today? |
today millions of natives stilll speak Quechua |
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who was Gabriel Garcia Marquez and what did he do |
He was a columbian nobel prize winner of 1982 |
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who wanted gold and silver in spanish conquest era |
Pizarro |
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what is economic and resource based on |
agriculture, mining and extraction of resources |
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what gap caused failure to develope economically |
the gap between rich and poor |
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what countries rely on growing crops |
guyana, suriname, uruguay and french guyana |
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what did columbia rely on |
oil, coffee (2nd most in world after brazil) and illegal drugs |
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what country has the highest per capita and richest |
venezuela |
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what does venezuela rely on |
OIL! and rapid diversification |
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chile |
2,700 miles long and 100 miles long |
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what is the common market (free trade agreement) |
mercosur |
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what does chile participate in |
global economy |
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what undermines higher education in chile |
political unrest |
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what two things divides Mexico into two |
mt. sierra madre occidental and oriental |
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what is the largest of the five physical regions in mexico |
central plateaus where most people are because of best farmland and mild climate |
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crossroads of 4 plates |
volcanoes and earthquakes |
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what is Baja Peninsula and which of the 5 physical regions is it in |
mostly made of mountains and desert and is in Northern Pacific coast |
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what peninsula (one of 5 regions) has flat-rain that passes through surface and dissolves limestone |
Yucutan Peninsula where it causes ccaverns and sinkholes; it has no rivers |
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what is the 3 cultural blends of the mestizo nation |
native spanish and modern |
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what are peninsulas |
spainards born in spain |
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what system was haciendas and native labor |
ecomienda system, which angered the creoles; spainiards born in americas |
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what did the 10 year mexican revolution outcome in (1910) |
democratic republic (1920); fought own goverment |
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how much of the mexican population where accustomed to urban life |
2/3rds |
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what did the heart of modern mexico provide |
better economic oppurtunities |
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what are the 4 levels of urban life |
small upper class, middle class, working class, and lower class-poor landless and jobless |
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what is the biggest portion of the mexican population of the urban life |
lower class-poor |
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what was the societies foundation |
family seves as social security and banks. |
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social anchor |
family businesses |
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what was the treaty name where brazil gained control over land |
treaty of tordesillas |
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what did oscar nieymeyer do for brazil |
designed new capital buildings for moving the capital to brasilia to draw more people to center |
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what countries in latin america have ppl trying to keep traditions as lifestyle |
peru, bolivia, guatemala and west mexico |
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what is chiles largest export |
copper |
