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Discovery Education
Latin America Unit
Geography of the World: Latin America: The People
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Segment: Languages of Latin America
1. What regions does the term Latin America refer to?
2. Why is the region called Latin America?
3. Which of the two Latin languages is most spoken in the area?
History of Latin America (3 segments)
Segment: Ancient civilizations of Latin America
4. Which ancient groups created the headstones in the jungles of Southeastern
Mexico?
5. Where did the Mayas build their great stone cities?
6. What was the largest of the early Mayan cities?
7. When was this great city destroyed?
8. Which group considered these ruins to be sacred?
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9. Where did the Aztecs build their city of Technoltitlan?
10. What did the war like people, the Aztecs, conquer in the 15th Century?
11. How did the Aztec calendar compared to the European calendar of the 15th
century?
12. The early South American cities developed in the desert coast of which country
____________?
13. By the early 16th Centuries, what countries were included in the Incan Empire?
14. In the capital city of Cuzco what can you still see?
15. What is the name of the sacred city of the Incans?
Segment: European Exploration, Colonization and Settlement of Latin
America.
16. Who were the King and Queen of Spain in 1492?
17. What did Christopher Columbus want to reach when he sailed around the world?
18. In what region of the world did Columbus land?
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19. Why did Columbus call the people Indians?
20. In 1493 what did Columbus return to the island with?
21. What was the first Spanish settlement?
22. As the Spanish conquered and settled more and more land, where did Hernan
Cortes land?
23. Which Ancient empire capital did Cortes reach?
Segment: Consequences of European colonization:
24. What is the Columbian Exchange?
25. What happened to the Native Americans when the disease from Europe where
brought to their lands?
26. As natives died off, where did plantation owners find new labor that was immune
to their diseases?
27. What Europeans countries wanted part of the wealth of the America and settled
areas the Spanish had not taken?
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Segment: Religious and Cultural Traditions
28. What combination of people makes up Latin Americans today?
29. What religion replaced the native religions?
30. What religious figure is especially honored in Latin America?
31. What is often performed to honor the Christian saints?
32. Music and popular dancing are an _________________ part of life.
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