Unit 3: Latin America Review

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

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

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

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

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?

Which of these Tribes would result from the Triple Alliance?

Christopher Columbus makes landfall on which landmass in 1492?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Many Tribes throughout Mesoamerica and South America were monotheistic.

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

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

The Inca were immediately preceded by which Andean Empire?

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

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

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

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

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

Hernan Cortes captures Tenochtitlan in its entirety on what date?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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