Unit 3 Review Latin America

What two renewable resources have been the focus of tension in the Amazon River basin

• Coal and Silver

• Cattle and sheep

• Natural gas and oil

• Timber and fertile soil

Many people living in Central America have modified the physical environment by —

• burning volcanic rock as a source of fuel

• building dams to control flooding along rivers

• cutting down rainforests to clear land for farming

• constructing seawalls to stop the full force of hurricanes

How was most of the labor supplied to sugar plantations in Brazil during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

• By indentured servants

• By the Columbian Exchange

• By the trans-Atlantic slave trade

• By the indigenous populations

Which cultural trait distinguishes Brazil from most other nations in South America?

• Lack of education

• Portuguese language

• Protestant religious beliefs

• Carnival religious celebration

Enslaved Africans that were brought for work in South America were also responsible for the diffusion of many new popular forms of —

• architecture

• advanced weaponry

• dance, foods, and music

• sculpture, painting, and art

Which technology led to a diffusion of culture from Europe to Latin America in the late 1400’s and 1500’s?

• Railroads

• Caravel ships

• Printing press

• Telegraph lines

Which of the following is one way language patterns in the Caribbean were affected by cultural diffusion?

• English eventually displaced other languages in the region.

• Spanish became the official language of the Caribbean islands

• Languages from West Africa came to dominate in the Caribbean

• Several European languages replaced many indigenous languages.

One of the negative effects of the cultural diffusion Latin America experienced during the age of European exploration of the New World included —

• an expansion of the slave trade

• an increased number of dangerous storms

• the introduction of cattle ranching

• the destruction of the tropical rainforests

Based on the information in the table, which environmental modification would most likely be common in each of these Latin American countries?

• Mining

• Ranching

• Drilling for oil

• Harvesting timber

According to the excerpt, feijoada can be considered a modern example of how Brazilian culture was impacted by —

• the colonization of the Portuguese

• the creation of newer technologies

• the modification of the environment

• the introduction of African cooking methods