Unit 3 - A Legacy of Colonialism - Latin America

Question 1

Societies use these systems to organize the production and distribution of goods and services

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market, command, socialist

Question 2

Which technology led to a diffusion of culture from Europe to Latin America?

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sailing ships

Question 3

The migration of European colonists to South America changed the character of the region by

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significantly changing the religion and language patterns

Question 4

How was most of the labor supplied to sugar plantations in Latin America?

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the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

Question 5

The Spanish easily defeated the Aztecs because

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the Spanish had technology such as armor, muskets and cannon

Question 6

The Amazon River Basin mostly covers which region of South America?

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Brazil

Question 7

These indigenous were located in the Yucatan Peninsula. They still exist today in Guatemala.

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The Maya

Question 8

A period of cultural and biological exchanges between the Old World and the New World.

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The Columbian Exchange

Question 9

Many Europeans nations are Socialist economic systems. Which feature is found in Socialism?

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government-managed healthcare

Question 10

The Andes Mountains protect the eastern boundaries of

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Chile and Peru

Question 11

One of the negative effects of cultural diffusion in Latin America after the Europeans arrived

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an expansion of the slave trade

Question 12

In this economy citizens decide what to buy & sell, competition encouraged, ↓ prices, ↑ quality

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market system

Question 13

These people were fierce, engineers who built aqueducts, built capital city of Tenochtitlan.

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Aztec

Question 14

The diagram best shows which of the following cultural descriptions?

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Newly-blended culture

Question 15

Diego Rivera was inspired to produce artwork such as "La Gran Tenochtitlan" because of

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historical appreciation

Question 16

Decisions in a communist economic system are primarily made by

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the central government

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