Latin America Review

What Mexican celebration is illustrated in the picture above?

• Diwali

• World Cup

• Día de los Muertos

• Easter

The event where the New World and the Old World traded plants, animals, germs, goods, ideas, and culture is called:

• The Columbian Exchange

• The Presidium

• Mesoamerican transference

• The Cuban Revovlution

What was the primary reason why conquering the New World was so easy for Europeans?

• 90% of people in the New World died of Old World diseases

• People in the New World did not fight back

• People from the Old World had machine guns

• the Panama canal allowed many ships to pass through

Which of the following foods was indigenous to the New World?

• Tomatoes

• Wheat

• Grapes

• Apples

What effect did sugarcane have on the population of the New World?

• Many slaves were brought from Africa to work on sugar plantations

• Many indigenous people got rich selling sugar

• Sugarcane was first found in the Old World

• The process for changing sugarcane into sugar was first discovered in the New World

Which of the following animals comes from the New World?

• Llamas

• Horses

• Cows

• Pigs

Where were the Inca located?

• A

• B

• C

• not here

Which of the following is a NEGATIVE effect of farming and mining in Central & South America?

• the creation of Calypso Music

• the spread of Roman Catholicism

• Deforestation

• the spread of diseases

Cattle Ranching became an important economic activity in South America as a result of which event?

• Spanish - American War

• War of 1812

• Completion of the Panama Canal

• The Columbian Exchange

The Spanish language is the most commonly spoken language in Latin America; this is a direct result of...

• Great Britain colonizing the region

• Spain colonizing the region

• Mexico colonizing the region

• The Soviet Union colonizing the region