Unit 3: Latin America Review

Definition: a country that is governed by elected representatives and by an elected leader rather than by a monarch.

The Inca of Cuzco is Captured by Fancisco Pizzaro on what date?

Definition: Mexican general who became a leader of the Mexican independence movement and later emperor of Mexico.

Which of these is NOT a cause of Mexico's Revolution and Overthrowing of Spanish control?

Indigenous Tribes begin settling in South America approximately how many years ago?

The fall of the Kingdom of Chimor was quite well documented by the Inca.

Definition: a social science dealing with the rights and duties of citizens.

The Mayans held a cyclical view of life, which fueled the acceptance of Human Sacrifice.

The Moon was held as the Chief Celestial Body of the Aztec, and they would devote much of their resources to it's study.

Much of Colonial Latin America's social hierarchy is based on what?

Definition: South American Indians who ruled an empire that extended along the Pacific coast and Andean Highlands.

When studying Archeological Cultures, we gain knowledge of their culture based upon the study of what?

Which of these tribes are considered the "Mother Culture" of Mesoamerican Tribes?

Hernan Cortes captures Tenochtitlan in its entirety on what date?

The Inca were immediately preceded by which Andean Empire?

Definition: Statement of U.S. foreign policy oppositing the extension of European control or influence to the west.

Definition: A Mesoamerican culture that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521.

Which of these Tribes would result from the Triple Alliance?

Definition: Belief in Many or a Multiplicity of Gods (E.g Hinduism, Greco-Roman Hellenism, Yoruba)

Definition: A Reformation period in Mexico’s history centered around abolishing colonialist practices.

Which of these is NOT attributed to the Fall of the Olmec?

Definition: an alliance of three Nahua altepetl city-states: Mexico-Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan.

The Indigenous Tribes settling around the Amazon River Basin were largely nomadic, and travel frequently.

Hernan Cortez does what to his naval fleet after making landfall in Tabasco in 1519?

Definition: Roman Catholic priest and revolutionary leader who is called the father of Mexican independence.

Definition: Symbolic narrative of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it. May or May not be true.

Definition: The movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland.

Many Tribes throughout Mesoamerica and South America were monotheistic.

The Mexican American War begins over a land dispute over which territory?

Definition: the study of human history and prehistory via the excavation of sites and analysis of artifacts.

Definition: Document describing the system of beliefs and laws by which a country, state, or organization is governed.

Definition: a group of persons controlling a government especially after a revolutionary seizure of power

Definition: A culture or cultural throughline which we learn about through the analysis of artifacts and oral history.

The Grito de Delores, an organizing cry given by Miguel Hidalgo, and marking Mecican Indepence Day, is declared when?

The Mayan Civilization Rises to power in the Mesoamerican Region in what year?

Enslavement of Indigenous People was permitted throughout all of Colonial Mexico and South America's History.

Which of these was NOT one of the provisions outlined in La Reforma?

Large Groups of Indigenous People initially settled in what area in South America?

The Olmec are known for the discovery and use of what important material?

Christopher Columbus makes landfall on which landmass in 1492?

Mexican Independence is established on August 24th, 1821, with the signing of which document?

The Chavin and Norte Chico peoples are examples of what kind of culture?

The End of the Classical Period of Mesoamerica coincides with what event?

The US Mexican War ends with the signing of which document on February 2nd, 1848?

The Capital and seat of power of the Inca, as well as their ancestral homeland according to tradition, is known as...

Which of these tribal states is NOT a part of the Triple Alliance in the Valley of Mexico?

Definition: Belief in a single, omnipotent, supreme god or deity. (E.g Christianity, Judaism, Zoroastrianism)

Definition: a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire.