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100 Cards in this Set
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The United Provinces of the Rio Plata consisted of Argentina, ____, Paraguay, and ____.
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Bolivia, Uraguay
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In Incan culture, a god or spirit of mountains is called a(n) ____.
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Apu
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Hernan Cortes sailed for Mexico from _____ in 1519, and upon landing, ____, to prevent the return of any dissidents that supported Diego de Velazquez.
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Cuba, scuttled his ships
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Brazil became a Portuguese province in ____.
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1549
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In Argentina, pampas refers to ____.
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The vast fertile lowlands
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A(n) ____ was the basic unit, political and social, of the Incan community, especially among the Quechuan.
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Aylla
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Jose de San Martin, after refusing the governorship of Chile, went on to liberate ____.
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Peru
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The ____ in Incan society was(were) responsible for the welfare of the people, providing food and goods drawn from stocked storehouses.
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Imperial government
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Starting in the ____, the clearing of land and road building led to the destruction of large tracts of the Amazon rain forest.
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1970's
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Pedro Cabral, with a fleet of 13 ships, made landfall in ____ in Brazil.
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1500
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Another term for a Spanish royal court of justice, from early colonization days, is ____.
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Audiencia
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The Spanish term for a former Spanish, colonial administrative that governed a colony or municipality is a ____.
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Cabildo
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Cristobal de Acuna, Spanish missionary and explorer, was known for ____.
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writting the earliest account ... Amazon
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Incan stone masons were known for ____ in the building of structure with enormous stone blocks.
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Fitting the stones with amazing precision
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The ____ arrived in central Mexico towards the end of the 12th century.
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Aztecs
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During the hundred years between 1820 and 1920, almost ____ immigrants came to South America, mainly from ____.
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6 million, Europe
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The Iberian Peninsula includes the countries of ____.
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Portugal, Spain
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The leader of the independence movement in Brazil, ____, was nicknamed Tiradentes - tooth-puller.
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Jose Joaquim da Silva Xavier
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In South America, states or counties within a country are called ____.
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Departamentos
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Another term for a Spanish royal court of justice, from early colonization days, is ____.
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Audiencia
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The term used to describe pre-Columbian chiefs or leaders and leaders of indigenous tribes in Brazil is ____.
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Cacique
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The Spanish term for a former Spanish, colonial administrative that governed a colony or municipality is a ____.
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Cabildo
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Cristobal de Acuna, Spanish missionary and explorer, was known for ____.
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writing the earliest account ... Amazon
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Incan stone masons were known for ____ in the building of structure with enormous stone blocks.
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Fitting the stones with amazing precision
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The ____ arrived in central Mexico towards the end of the 12th century.
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Aztecs
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During the hundred years between 1820 and 1920, almost ____ immigrants came to South America, mainly from ____.
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6 million, Europe
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The Iberian Peninsula includes the countries of ____.
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Portugal, Spain
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The leader of the independence movement in Brazil, ____, was nicknamed Tiradentes - tooth-puller.
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Jose Joaquim da Silva Xavier
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In South America, states or counties within a country are called ____.
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Departamentos
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The term used to describe pre-Columbian chiefs or leaders and leaders of indigenous tribes in Brazil is ____.
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Cacique
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By the end of World War I, the ____ movement was occurring in Europe.
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Modernist
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By the early decades of the 20th century, Argentina had prospered to a point comparable to ____ through the exporting of ____ and ____.
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The U.S., meat, grains
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Miguel Angel introduced ____ to the world in the 1920's by incorporating this into his own writings.
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Mayan myths and folklore
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The ____ set in motion the economic crisis of the Porfiriato in 1907.
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Recession in the USA
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Jose Sarney addressed Brazil's inflation problem with the ____ in February 1986.
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Cruzado Plan
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After the French Revolution, Cuba became the leasing producer of ____.
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Sugar
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Early in the 20th century, poor immigrants from European nations had failed to ____ in Argentina as envisioned by liberal reformers.
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Own and farm their own tracts of land
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After gaining independence, Chile was regarded as very stable due to ____.
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All of the above
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Art and Literature in the 20th century of Latin America struggled with ____.
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A lack of identity
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The ____ commanded for the restoration of a constitutional government in Mexico by denouncing Victoriano Huerta.
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Plan of Guadalupe
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Tancredo Neves, a member of the ____ was elected president of Brazil in November 1982.
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Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement
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The ____ gave the United States authority to intervene and enforce the rights of citizens in Cuba.
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Platt Amendment
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Armed revolts by the Radical Party in Argentina in the early 1900's led to ____ in 1912.
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Electoral refom laws being passed
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In the second half of the 19th century, Chile experienced an economic boom in ____.
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The mining of copper and nitrates
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The modernist artists of Latin America in the 20th centrury featured ____ frequently in their works.
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Primitive cultures
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Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner became the first woman elected as President of ____ in ____.
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Argentina, 2007
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The official name for the country of Bolivia is the ____ State of Bolivia.
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Plurinational
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During recent years, China has increased its purchases of ____ and____ from Brazil.
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Iron ore, steel
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Located over 2000 miles away from the mainland, ____ is a territory in the Pacific Ocean claimed by Chile.
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Easter Island
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One of the most developed indigenous tribes in South America were the ____ who lived in the Colombia area.
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Chibchas
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Under the 1898 Treaty of Paris, Spain relinquished control of ____, the last Spanish colony in the Americas, to the U.S.
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Cuba
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In the late 1800s, Ecuador experienced a financial boom due to the export of ____.
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Cocoa
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The official name of the country of Mexico is the ____.
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United Mexican States
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At the time the Spanish landed in Peru in 1531, the ____ commanded a large empire that stretched from northern Ecuador to central Chile.
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Incans
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____ is the capital city of Venezuela.
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Caracas
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Pedro de Alvarado was the ____ and conquered ____ and Salvador.
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Chief lieutenant of Cortes, Guatemala
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The only animal used for transporting in the Incan empire were____.
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Llamas
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The capital of the Aztec empire was ____, founded in ____.
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Tenochtitlan, 1325
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At the time of the arrical of the Europeans to the Americas, almost ____ Natice Americans lived in South America.
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30 million
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Under the agreement of the Treaty of Tordesillas, in 1494, ____ and ____ divided the world into two zones of influence.
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Spain, Portugal
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Name the Spanish system that regulated Native American labor during colonization of the Americas.
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Encomienda
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A group of families in pre-Columbian Aztec society that lived together in a common area and farmed a community plot were known as ____.
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Calpulli
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Simon Bolivar was called "the ____."
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Liberator
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The military expansion of the Incan empire that began in about 1438 and continued for about 55 years, eventually covered an area stretching from Quito, Ecuador to Chile, a distance of nearly ____.
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2500 miles
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The Aztecs practiced human sacrifice in their religion and used ____ for this ritual.
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Prisoners of war
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In the southern part of the Gulf of Mexico, about 1200 BC, the first civilization in central and north America, the ____, developed with ____ as its center.
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Olmecs, San Lorenzo
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During the post-independence time period of South America, heavy industrial growth was severely limited by the lack of ____.
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Coal
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Isabella I and Ferdinand of Aragon were known as the ____.
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Catholic kings
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The market value of goods and services produced within a country in a given period is referred to as ____.
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GDP (gross domestic products)
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The Iberian work, used both in the Spanish and Portuguese language, that means having mixed lineage or race to describe persons during the Spanish colonial period caste system is____.
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Casta
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Simon Bolivar launched two take-overs of ____, the first with the backing of ____.
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Venezuela, Haiti
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In the days of the Incan empire, metals were extensively mined. Gold, silver, and ____ were reserved for nobility use only.
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Tin
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The Aztec calender used a ____ day year.
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260
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The Olmecs built ____, designed with the concept of climbing up to worship in mind, which led to the building of ____.
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Raised platforms with temples on top, pyriamids
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Crops that were introduced by Europeans to South America that are now major export crops are sugarcane, _____, and _____.
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Wheat, coffee
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In the early 1900's in Mexico, the lower classes felt that the Mexican Revolution ____.
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Had failed to bring them a better life.
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Needing money to invest in idustry, Peron, in 1952, ____.
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Allowed transnational companies...Argentina
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The third voyage of Columbus, in ____, reached ____ and ____.
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1498, Trinidad, Venezuela
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The ruling philosophy of the Bourbon Dynasty was that the colonies were____ and did not deserve ____.
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Economic resources only, nationhood.
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When Napoleon gained Andalucia and placed his brother on the throne of Spain, many Mexican locals chose to support ____ instead of Napoleon.
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Ferdinand VII
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Slavery was abolished in Brazil in ____.
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1888
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Many writers in early Latin American culture wrote of ____.
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All of the above
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The fourth voyage of Columbus was spent ____.
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Mapping the coastline of Central America.
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After the fall of the monarchy in Spain, numerous juntas sprung up, including the most radical one in ____.
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Caracas
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The War of the Pacific resulted in Bolivia ____.
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Losing its Pacific coast territory.
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The three ships Christopher used in his first voyage were the ____, the ____, and the ____.
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Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria
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The first Venezuelan republic was brought down by the rebellion of the llaneros and ____.
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A devastating earthquake in 1812.
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In 1829, Spain attemted to ____ Mexico.
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Reconquer
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Simon Bolivar studied both the American government system and that of the ____ and ____ in order to find a system that would succeed in South America.
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French, British
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The Mexican-American War of 1846-1847 allowed ____.
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The USA to purchase almost half of Mexico.
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The central inland region of Argentina is referred to as ____.
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Pampas
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The high plateau in Bolivia is called the ____.
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Altiplano
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The world's largest wetland area is located in the country of ____.
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Brazil
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After a military takeover in 1973, Chile's government regime became known for ____.
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Serious human rights violations
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____ is the capital city of Colombia.
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Bogota
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In 1500, ____ claimed Brazil for Portugal.
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Pedro Alvares Cabral
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____ is the capital city of Ecuador.
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Quito
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The constitution for the country of Brazil was enacted in ____.
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1822
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Peru's leading foreign investor, as of 2009, is ____.
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The U.S.
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As of 2009, ____ of the population of Venezuela is under the age of 25.
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0.5
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