Latin American History Test review

What was one of the reasons for European expansion into the New World?

• Europeans wanted to convert indigenous populations into Christians.

• Cheap and steadily available labor force to work in Sugar Cane plantations and haciendas.

• They wanted to colonize land to defeat Napoleon.

• They wanted the shiny stones for jewelry.

What decimated the indigenous populations in South America during the European expansion to the New World?

• Too many indigenous populations were being sold into slavery.

• The indigenous populations were forced to fight in the French and Indian war.

• The indigenous populations did not have immunities to European diseases such as small pox.

• The indigenous populations had more deaths than births.

The importation of indigenous people by the Spanish and Portuguese became known as what?

• Transatlantic Slave Trade

• Spanish Revolution

• Portuguese Revolution

• Columbian Exchange

Why did the Spanish and Portuguese bring black Africans to the Americas?

• They wanted to increase the Standard of living of black Africans.

• It was much faster to acquire black Africans than indigenous people.

• Their religion required them to do convert all immigrants.

• The indigenous populations of Latin America were decimated (destroyed) due to disease.

The enslavement and forced transportation of 12-15 million black Africans

• Transatlantic Slave Trade

• Emigrate

• BRICS

• Columbian Exchange

Term referring to the native peoples of a particular place.

• Emigrate

• Indigenous

• Naturalization

• Iberian

Movement of peoples, agricultural commodities, diseases, and cultures between the Old World and the New World.

• Columbian Exchange

• Transatlantic Slave Trade

• BRICS

• Narco-Terrorism

What still prevails today in South American countries such as Cuba and Brazil from the African Slave trade?

• Many of the haciendas that the Spanish and Portuguese used are still in use today.

• Intermarriages among the Spanish and Portuguese ancestry peoples and black Africans which resulted in a new cultural identity in Latin America today.

• Many of the descendants from the black Africans still work in gold and diamond mines in Brazil.

• Slavery still exists in many parts of South and Central America today.

What is an Iberian language?

• Languages and cultures from the Iberian Peninsula which included Spain and Portugal

• South American Language from Mexico.

• It was the language the black African’s spoke.

• It was the native language of the indigenous populations of South America.

Which of the following is true about romance languages?

• It is a mixture of an ancient indigenous language and Spanish.

• It includes both Spanish and Portuguese.

• It is the least spoken language in Latin America.

• They include both English and Slavik.