African and European influences on Latin America

Spanish and Portugese soldier explorers who came to Latin America looking for new goods to buy and sell were called ______________.

• conquistadors

• mulattoes

• mestizos

• plantation owners

The exchange of ideas, religion, languages, technolgy, diseases, plants, and animals from the New World to the Old World is called the _______________.

• Triangular Trade

• Columbian Exchange

• Latin America Exchange Rate

• Caribbean Exchange

______________ are a people of mixed European and indigenous ancestry in Latin America and are the largest ethnic group in Mexico, Venezuela, and many countries in northern Latin America today.

• Mestizos

• Mulattoes

• Conquistadors

• Slaves

Conquistadors from Portugal claimed the area now known as ________________.

• Brazil

• Mexico

• Argentina

• Cuba

Because most of the countries in Latin America were conquered by Spain, the _______________________language is the most spoken language of the region.

• Spanish

• Portuguese

• English

• Italian

Conquistadors from ________ conquered and settled in Florida, Mexico, large parts of Central and South America, and many islands in the Caribbean.

• Portugal

• Africa

• Spain

• England

Since Portugal claimed Brazil, Brazilians speak the ________________ language.

• Spanish

• Portuguese

• English

• Italian

When the Europeans came to Latin America, the Spanish and Portuguese settlers spread the ________ religion to the indigenous peoples.

which is still the leading religion of Latin America today.

• Catholic

• Jewish

• Islamic

• Methodist

The slave trade developed into a _______________ arrangement between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

• Triangular Trade

• Columbian Exchange

• Latin America Exchange Rate

• Caribbean Exchange

During the ____________________ of triangular trade, slaves were brought to the Americas for forced labor on plantations.

• middle passage

• northwest passage

• Columbian exchange

• Caribbean exchange