Latin America Flashcards
What are the 4 regions that make up Latin america?
Mexico, central,south america, and the Caribbean.
4,500 miles along west coast of south Americas, and creates the boarder BTW Chile and Argentina
Andes Mountains
Tropical Climate
located along the equator
largest rain forest in the world 2 million square miles
Amazon Rain forest
Second largest river in the world
contains 20% of all fresh water in the world
Amazon River
located in north Chile BTW the pacific coast and Andes mountains
the mountain barrier makes this one of the driest place on earth.
Atacama Desert
ceremonial centers steep pyramids with advance architectural techniques
studied astronomy, predicted solar eclipses , and devised the calendar
Mayas
eagle sitting on cactus devouring snake, pyramid temples for human sacrifice
Aztecs
Built cities high in the Andes mountains
perfected terrace farming to grow crops on mountains
Incas
What did Columbus bring to america?
Coffee beans small pox Sugar cane horses cattle
who began to fight over rights to the land?
Spain and Portugal
the population of the Caribbean are descendants of whom?
European, African, mixed, ancestry
What was the treaty of tordesillas?
Portugal gained control over the land that is now present day Brazil
Why did Portuguese clear land in brazil?
sugar plantations
Why where African slaves brought to Brazil?
To work on the sugar plantations
Today, millions of Brazilians are mixed of what three ancestry?
European, African, And Portuguese
