Latin American History Vocab Quiz

one of the main diseases that spread from the Europeans to the Natives & caused the death of a large number of the indigenous people

• smallpox

• conquistador

• indigenous

• hacienda

An exchange of plants, animals, technologies, and ideas from the Old World (Europe, Asia and Africa) to the New World (North and South America) and vice versa.

• Latin America

• smallpox

• Columbian Exchange

• New World

The primary language spoken in Brazil

• Spanish

• Portuguese

• English

• hacienda

Primary language spoken in most of Latin America (not including Brazil)

• Spanish

• Portuguese

• English

• hacienda

a term referring to the native peoples or species of a given place. The native peoples of Latin America are often called "indigenas"

• Roman Catholic

• smallpox

• conquistador

• indigenous

the name for a Spanish conqueror/soldier of the Americas

• Columbian Exchange

• conquistador

• revolution

• hacienda

a region that includes Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean islands, and South America; grouped together because most people who live here speak Latin-based languages like Spanish and Portuguese.

• empire

• Latin America

• Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

• spanish

general term to describe the newly discovered Americas during the European Age of Exploration

• New World

• romance

• Latin America

• revolution

The word for Spanish agricultural plantations throughout Latin America during the colonial period.

• Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

• hacienda

• Columbian Exchange

• smallpox

The enslavement and forced transportation of 12-15 million black Africans to the Americas between the 15th and 19th centuries (also called Triangular Trade)

• Columbian Exchange

• Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

• empire

• revolution