Chapter 2 Latin America section 1
1. What present countries did the Mayan live?
2. What was the principle writing method of the Mayan?
a. Describe it?
3. What was the primary crop for the Mayan?
4. When did the Mayan civilization begin to decline?
a. Why?
5. When did the Aztec arrive in Mexico Valley?
6. What was the Aztec Capital and what city is it now?
7. How did the Aztec gain power and wealth?
8. What farming methods did the Aztec use?
a. What crops did they grow?
9. How made Aztec society advanced?
10.What brought an end to the Aztec society?
Section 2
1. When and where did the Inca begin?
2. When did Pachacuti become ruler of the Inca and what
lands did he conquer?
a. How did he rule his land?
b. How many people did he rule over?
3. How was the Incan government organized?
4. What is a Quipus?
5. How many miles of roads did the Inca build?
6. What else did they build that was important?
7. How did they build their stone buildings?
a. How was it impressive?
8. Describe their Incan religion
a. Name and describe some of their gods
9. What happened to the Incan empire?
a. How are the Inca living today?
Section 3
1. Who was the last leader of the Aztec before the Spanish
arrived in Mexico?
2. What were Europeans searching for in the 14th Century?
a. Why?
3. What way did Columbus believe that he could reach
Asia?
a. What country sponsored his voyage?
b. How many weeks did it take Columbus to reach land?
c. What day did he reach land?
d. Where did he think he was?
e. What did he call the people that he met? Why?
4. What two European countries were the first to try to
gain control over the Americas
a. What agreement did they reach?
b. What were the terms of the agreement?
5. What were Spanish explorers looking for in the
Americas?
a. What were they called?
6. Who was the leader of the Conquistadors that attacked
the Aztec?
a. How did he conquer the Aztec
b. How did Aztec beliefs help him Conquer the Aztec
c. How many Aztec and other Native Americans died
during the fighting
7. Who was the leader of the Conquistadors that attacked
the Inca?
a. What year did he attack the Inca?
8. Why did Europeans come to the Americas
9. How did Spain organize its Colonies in the Americas?
a. What were the two most powerful Colonies in the
Americas
10. How did the Spanish treat Native Americans?
a. In the first 50 years of Spanish rule the Native
population declined from 25 million to?
b. What is ecomiendas?
Section 4
1. What nation in Latin America was the first get their
independence from European nations?
a. Why did they rebel
b. What year was it
c. Who was their leader
d. What nation did they form
2. By what year did most Latin American counties get their
independence from Europeans
a. What events influenced South American wanting their
independence
3. What year did Mexico get their independence from
Spain
a. Who was their leader
b. What happened to him
c. Who became the leader after him
4. What country was Simon Bolivar born in
a. Describe his background?
b. What countries did he free
c. What European Country did he fight against?
d. What present day countries did he free from Spain?
5. What countries in South America were still controlled
by Spain in 1825?
6. How did Brazil get its Independence from Portugal?
7. What was Simon Bolivar’s goal for South America?
a. Did he get that goal, why? Or why not?
b. What kind of people took over the rule of newly
independent South American Countries?
Section 5
1. How was Latin American class structures organized
when Spain and other European Countries controlled
Latin America?
a. Who was at the top and the bottom?
b. How did it change when European countries left?
c. Who took control?
2. What does/did Latin American countries’ economy rely
on?
a. Did it change when European countries lost control?
3. How did foreign countries profit from Latin American
countries?
a. What major structure did the United States build in
South America to help its own economy?
b. After it was built what right did the United States say
it had the right to do?
4. What types of reforms took place in the 1940’s
5. What types of governments took power in the 1960’s
and 1970’s
6. What did Latin American countries have to do in the
1980’s
a. Why?
7. What organization did Mexico join in 1994?
a. How did it help Mexico?