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31 Cards in this Set
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Latin American influences |
Spanish Catholic Roman Law White |
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Highest continuous mountain range |
Andes |
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Greatest river system/rainforest |
Amazon |
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Driest desert |
Atacama (in Chile) |
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Precious metals |
Gold Silver |
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Less precious metals |
Tin (Bolivia) Copper (Chile, Mexico) |
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Agriculture |
Rubber (Brazil) Bananas (Central America, Caribbean, Colombia) Beef (Argentina, Uruguay, Costa Rica) Sugar (Caribbean) |
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Guano |
Bird ****, fertilizer, gun powder |
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Ethnicity |
Indigenous, European, African, Japanese, Middle Eastern |
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Mestizaje |
Cultural and racial mixing Begins with European conquest in 1492 |
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Religion |
80-90% Catholic of one degree or another Syncretism: Mexico/Guatemala, Cuba/Brazil, Catholic w/ African Mayan |
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Country closest geographically to the US |
Mexico |
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Country with the most recently formalized diplomatic relations with the US |
Cuba |
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Largest country geographically |
Brazil |
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Smallest country geographically on the mainland |
El Salvador |
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Two countries which were sites of the Aztec and Inca empires, conquered by Spaniards in the 1500s |
Mexico and Peru |
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Country with the largest population of people of African descent outside the African continent |
Brazil |
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Two largest sources of illegal drugs to the US |
Colombia and Mexico |
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"Country" with its own Olympic teams, but is still part of the US |
Puerto Rico |
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Largest oil exporters to the US |
Venezuela and Mexico |
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Countries receiving largest amount of US military aid and advisers since 1996 |
Colombia and Mexico |
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Second most widely spoken language |
Portuguese |
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Country that has won more Olympic medals than any other in Latin America |
Cuba |
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First country to grant women the right to vote |
Ecuador |
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Most recent country in Latin America to become independent |
Panama |
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Largest city in the western hemisphere |
Mexico City and Salo Paolo |
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Country that saw one of its glaciers completely melt away in 2009 |
Bolivia |
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Country that is a native home for ostrich until they were virtually slaughtered out of existence |
Argentina |
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Country that contains most of the Amazon rainforest |
Brazil |
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Country with two capital cities |
Bolivia |
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Five most numerous Spanish speaking countries in the western hemisphere |
Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, US, Peru |
