Chapter 10: Andes and Midlatitude Countries

From north to south the countries that make up the Andean region in South America are Peru, Bolivia, and Chile

The pampas, like North America's Grand Canyon, provide land for growing wheat, corn, and grazing cattle

The Andes Mountains are a hit-and-run war technique

South American animals called camelids includes sheep and goats

An altiplano is a Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca

An estuary is an area where the ocean tide meets a river current

Guerilla means "high plain"

A series of parallel mountain ranges is a cordillera

Farmers and laborers held the highest positions in Inca society

Buenos Aires is the capital of Argentina

Lima is the capital of Peru

Precipitation is the main factor that determines climate in the Andes

A coup is an illegal seizure of power

The compadre relationship is between a child's parents and a child's sibling

The Inca became extremely wealthy because of fur trade

Cuzco is the capital of the Inca Empire

Pampas are a treeless grassland

Pueblos jovenes means "young town"

In Peru, the Inca language of Quechua is still widely spoken along with Spanish

Francisco Pizarro is the longest continuous group of mountain ranges in the world

Santiago is the capital of Chile

Argentina and Great Britain went to war over the Falkland Islands in the 1980s

Peru and Brazil are building the Transoceanic Highway

The Inca used the quipu for counting