SS6H1a/b Influences on Latin America

Influences on Latin America

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What does the term "pre-Columbian" mean?

• Before Columbia was made

• Before Columbus shows up

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Who explored, conquered, and colonized Latin America

• Americans

• Portuguese and French

• Spanish and Portuguese

• British and Spanish

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What cultures blend together to give Latin America its great diversity?

• Indigenous Americans, Asians, &

  Africans

• Indigenous Americans, Asians, &

  Europeans

• Indigenous Americans, Europeans, &

  Africans

• Europeans, Africans, & Asians

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In which Latin American country would you expect to hear Portuguese spoken today?

• Brazil

• Mexico

• Cuba

• Chile

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What language and religion did

Europeans bring to MOST of Latin

America?

• Spanish and Catholicism

• English and Protestantism

• French and Catholicism

• Portuguese and Protestantism

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What killed many of the indigenous people of Latin America during the colonial period?

• Hygiene and Sanitation issues

• Lack of Clean Water

• Disease from Europe

• Not enough food resources

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Where did Europeans in the

sixteenth century find a cheap labor

source for work in the New World

(Americas)?

• Slaves from West Africa

• settlers that came from Europe

• peasants from Spain and Portugal

• indigenous people of Australia

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The pattern of trade between Europe,

Africa and the Americas that included

the enslavement of people between

1400 and 1800 was called:

• African Exchange Triangle

• Columbian Exchange

• Trans-Pacific Slave Trade

• Triangle Trade

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What is one effect of slavery that

influences Latin America today?

• Slavery still exists in most Latin American

  countries.

• Many Latin Americans have ancestors

  from Africa.

• Latin America has no people with

  ancestors from Africa.

• The people of Latin America accept

  slavery as part of their lives.

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What long-term effect did the

colonization of Latin America by Spain and

Portugal have on the region?

• Most people visit Spain or Portugal

• Most people speak Spanish or Portuguese

• Most countries use Spanish or

  Portuguese money

• Most countries have a Spanish or

  Portuguese monarch