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Latin America Review - Advanced
1. Where do the majority of people live in Mexico? Why?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2. Where do the majority of people live in Brazil? Why?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3. Why do most populations reside in urban areas?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------4. Brazil = ____________________________________ population; Cuba = ______________________________________ population
5. How is Brazil’s location a benefit for trading?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------6. Venezuela’s main export is ____________. What is one problem associated with relying on one product for
government revenue?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------7. Venezuela is now a main supporter of Cuba. Prior to 1991, which country supported Cuba?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------8. What are the two languages spoken in the majority of Latin America? Where did these languages originate?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------9. Literate:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------10. Illiterate:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------11. What type of government does Brazil have?
__________________________________________ organization
___________________________________________ citizen participation
12. What type of government does Mexico have?
__________________________________________ organization
___________________________________________ citizen participation
13. What type of government does Cuba have?
__________________________________________ organization
___________________________________________ citizen participation
14. What type of government does Cuba claim to have?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------15. Which of these three is the least free? Why?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------16. Which man began the communist government in Cuba?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------17. Which country is a main trading partner to both Brazil and Mexico, but not Cuba?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------18. Embargo:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------19. Tariff:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------20. Which agreement lead to a decrease in trading barriers between Mexico, the United States, and Canada?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------21. What were the benefits associated with NAFTA?
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------22. What were the downfalls of NAFTA?
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------23. Which group were strongly against NAFTA in Mexico? What did they do?
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------24. Confederation:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------25. Federal:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------26. Unitary:
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27. Describe why each of these men are well-known:
Cortes
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Montezuma II
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Pizarro
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Atahualpa
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------28. Where were the Aztecs located?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------29. Where were the Incans located?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------30. Cortez and Pizarro were both from which country?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------31. How did Cortez overthrow Montezuma II?
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------32. How did Pizarro overthrow Atahualpa?
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------33. ________________________________ was the Spanish’s greatest weapon, even though they didn’t realize it.
34. How were the Aztecs and the Incans similar?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------35. Columbian Exchange:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------36. What good, that was brought from Europe to the Americas, changed agriculture, warfare, and travel?
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37. Describe the Aztec lifestyle prior to the Spanish arrival:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------38. Describe the Incan lifestyle prior to the Spanish arrival:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------39. Who was Miguel Hidalgo?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------40. Who was Toussaint L’Overture?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------41. Who was Simon Bolivar?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------42. Mestizos:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------43. Mulattos:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------44. Mesoamerica:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------45. How has slavery affected today’s world?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------46. Exchange rate:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------47. Currency:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------48. Physical capital:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------49. Give two examples of investing in physical capital:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------50. Human capital:
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51. Give two examples of investing in human capital:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------52. Entrepreneurs:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------53. Deforestation:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------54. Where is deforestation a problem? What does it cause?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------55. Why does Mexico City have such an issue with air pollution?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------56. Autocracy/Autocratic:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------57. Democracy/Democratic:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------58. Oligarchy/Oligarchic:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------59. How are presidential democracy and parliamentary democracy different?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------60. What are the three economic questions answered by each system?
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Don’t forget the map on the back 
Constructed Response:
Explain the major environmental concerns of Latin America regarding the issues of air pollution in Mexico City,
Mexico, the destruction of the rain forest in Brazil, and oil-related pollution in Venezuela.
Explain the impact of the Columbian Exchange on Latin America and Europe in terms of the decline of the
indigenous population, agricultural change, and the introduction of the horse.
Compare how traditional, command, and market, economies answer the economic questions of 1-what to produce,
2-how to produce, and 3-for whom to produce.
Label the following:
Amazon River, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Pacific Ocean, Panama Canal, Andes Mountains, Sierra Madre
Mountains, Atacama Desert, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Haiti, Mexico, Panama, and Venezuela