Impact of European Expansion in the New World

What had the largest impact on indigenous populations in South America during the European expansion to the New World?

• Most Indigenous groups got wiped out during the wars with the Spanish and Portuguese empires.

• The population decreased by 80% due to diseases.

• The horse made it much easier for the indigenous to follow their food.

• European provided domesticated animals (horse, cows and pigs) which greatly increased their quality of life which caused a population boom.

The importation of people from Africa by the Spanish and Portuguese became known as the .

• Columbian Exchange

• Portuguese Revolution

• Spanish Revolution

• Transatlantic Slave Trade

What impact did the African Slave trade have on countries such as Cuba and Brazil?

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

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

• Intermarriages among the Spanish, Portuguese, Indigenous and Africans resulted in new cultural identities in Latin America that are present today.

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

What cash crop was a driving force behind the importation of African slave? It is now valued as important to an economy and oil is in modern times.

• potatoes

• Sugarcane

• Cattle

Which statement provides the best evidence that Spain was the dominant colonial power in Latin America?

• Spain and Mexico continue to use the same currency.

• Spain continues to provide military support for Latin America.

• Spanish is the main language spoken in most of Latin America.

• Argentina elects' representatives to the legislature of Spain

What is the official language of Brazil?

• English

• Portuguese

• Spanish

• Russian

What religion was spread throughout Latin America?

• Hinduism

• Catholicism

• Judaism

• Islam

What term is used to describe the descendants of both the indigenous people and those from Spain? (Majority of Latin America is considered this ethnic group)

• Mestizo

• Espanola

• Spaniard

• Conquistadors

This event was a 13-day standoff between the U.S and the Soviet Union that nearly started a nuclear war.

• Cuban Revolution

• Spanish-American War

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Bay of Pigs

What was Fulgencio Batista’s relationship to Cuba?

• He led the movement to defeat Castro and became the communist leader.

• He was the democratically elected leader of Cuba.

• He was the Dictator before Fidel Castro took control.

• He was the leader of Cuba’s closest ally, the Soviet Union.