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Discovery Education
Latin America Unit
Geography of the World: Latin America: The People
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Segment: Languages of Latin America
- What regions does the term Latin America refer to?
- Why is the region called Latin America?
- Which of the two Latin languages is most spoken in the area?
History of Latin America (3 segments)
Segment: Ancient civilizations of Latin America
- Which ancient groups created the headstones in the jungles of Southeastern Mexico?
- Where did the Mayas build their great stone cities?
- What was the largest of the early Mayan cities?
- When was this great city destroyed?
- Which group considered these ruins to be sacred?
- Where did the Aztecs build their city of Technoltitlan?
- What did the war like people, the Aztecs, conquer in the 15th Century?
- How did the Aztec calendar compared to the European calendar of the 15th century?
- The early South American cities developed in the desert coast of which country ______?
- By the early 16th Centuries, what countries were included in the Incan Empire?
- In the capital city of Cuzco what can you still see?
- What is the name of the sacred city of the Incans?
Segment: European Exploration, Colonization and Settlement of Latin
America.
- Who were the King and Queen of Spain in 1492?
- What did Christopher Columbus want to reach when he sailed around the world?
- In what region of the world did Columbus land?
- Why did Columbus call the people Indians?
- In 1493 what did Columbus return to the island with?
- What was the first Spanish settlement?
- As the Spanish conquered and settled more and more land, where did Hernan Cortes land?
- Which Ancient empire capital did Cortes reach?
Segment: Consequences of European colonization:
- What is the Columbian Exchange?
- What happened to the Native Americans when the disease from Europe where brought to their lands?
- As natives died off, where did plantation owners find new labor that was immune to their diseases?
- What Europeans countries wanted part of the wealth of the America and settled areas the Spanish had not taken?
Segment: Religious and Cultural Traditions
- What combination of people makes up Latin Americans today?
- What religion replaced the native religions?
- What religious figure is especially honored in Latin America?
- What is often performed to honor the Christian saints?
- Music and popular dancing are an ______part of life.
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