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They wanted the gold and silver of the inca

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Spanish

1
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Defendants of the people who may have crossed the land bridge from Siberia to Alaska

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Inca

2
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Millions of native people still speak this language

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Quechua

3
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Great leader of the independence movement who led the revolution against Spain

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Simon Bolivar

4
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Literacy are higher here than in Mexico, Brazil, or Central America

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Spanish-speaking South America

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Education is very important here

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Chile

6
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Spain and Portugal reached an agreement to split South America in this treaty

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Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494

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The Portuguese put the native people to work but this happened

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Many died from disease so they brought in African slaves

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More than 500,000 native peoples still live in Brazil, most of them heren

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Amazon Rain Forest

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Brazil is ranked her as the largest economy in the world with more than 200 million people

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8th

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They are a leader of making cars, most of which run on what

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Ethanol – a fuel that comes from sugar cane

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In 1960, 22% of the population lived in cities now the number is over what percentage

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85%

12
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The most colorful feast day in Brazil

Takes place to the music of the SAMBA

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Carnival

13
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What is the capital of Brazil

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Brasilia

14
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What is the economic heart and the biggest city

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São Paulo

15
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What is the cultural center of Brazil

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Rio de Janeiro

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What dots the hillsides of Rio

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Desperately poor slums

17
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What are two results of poverty in Rio

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Crime waves

Drug abuse

18
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A wide range of plant and animal species

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Biodiversity

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Cutting down and clearing away of trees

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Deforestation

20
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An environmental organization agrees to pay off a certain amount of government debt and the country agrees to preserve a percentage of its rain forests

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Debt-for-nature swap

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Native peoples cut down rain forests not realizing that the soil isn’t what

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The soil isn’t fertile

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In what way do rain forests help regulate the Earth’s climate

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They absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen

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What was formally known as global warming and is when the temperature of the atmosphere beings to rise

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Climate change

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What percentage of the Earth’s surface do the rain forests cover

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6%

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What estimated percentage of the plants and animals on earth live in the rain forests

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50%

26
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What does democracy depend on

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Free and fair elections
Citizen participation
Majority rule with minority rights
Guaranteed freedoms

27
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What has Latin America seemed uninterested in until recently

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Democracy

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What did many of the oligarchies that developed in Latin America do

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Censored the press
Limited free speech
Punished dissent

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A military dictator or political boos

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Caudillo

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