Latin America Review

What crop helped to increase the population of Europeans because it allowed them to become healthier and better fed. 

• squash
• potatoes
• corn
• peanuts

Priests persuaded many native people to give up their old beliefs and become _________. 

• Muslims
• Christians
• Spanish
• Mestizo

In which South American country is most of the Amazon Rainforest found?

• Chile
• Peru
• Brazil
• Mexico

Why are languages like Spanish and Portuguese spoken throughout Latin America?

• Those languages are the easiest to learn.
• The natives originally spoke those languages.
• Those were the languages of the Europeans who colonized.
• Those languages are the best to learn for schools and jobs.

Which Latin American country is highlighted on the map shown?

• Brazil
• Panama
• Mexico
• Venezuela

Chinampas were farming techniques started by-- 

• Aztec
• Maya
• Inca
• Olmec

Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize were once inhabited by the ---

• Olmec
• Inca
• Maya
• Aztec

On the social pyramid of New Spain, _____________ held power and were born in Spain.

• native americans
• mestizos
• peninsulares
• Africans

What type of government does Mexico have?

• dictatorship
• democracy
• constitutional monarchy
• theocracy

I am a manmade waterway that allows boats to travel a short distance from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific

• Amazon River
• Sierra Madre Mountains
• Lake Maracaibo
• Panama Canal