Geography Amazon Columbian Exchange Slave Trade Brazil History
100
What is the Amazon River?
This physical feature is the most important on the Atlantic side of South America.
100
What is Eastward?
The direction that the Amazon River flows
100
What is the Columbian Exchange
The term used to describe the contact between the two worlds geographically separated from one another
100
What is Brazil
This country had the largest slave economy is history
100
What is junta?
In 1969 a group of generals called this took control of Brazil.
200
What is the Andes Mountains?
This physical feature connects all the countries on the Pacific side of South America.
200
What are wood, rubber, and plants for medicines, and gold
These are two of the many resources found in the Amazon Rain Forest.
200
What is the llama
This animal was the only domesticated animal in South America.
200
What is never (it still exists).
This is when slavery ended.
200
What is Portugal?
This country controlled the territory of Brazil until 1822.
300
What is the Altiplano?
This physical feature is described as a broad, high plateau, which lies between the two ridges of the Andes Mountains.
300
What is Cattle Ranching
This is the leading cause of deforestation in the Amazon?
300
What is the New World (South America)
The potato originated here.
300
What is West Central Africa
The region of Africa where the majority of Brazilian slaves were taken from.
300
What is Mercantilism
This system in Brazil promoted wealth, colonization, and a favorable balance of trade.
400
What is Altitude (or Elevation)
This is the primary factor in creating different climate zones in the Andes Mountains.
400
What is Terra Preta
It is believed that this type of soil was created by pre-Columbian civilizations living in the Amazon Rainforest.
400
What is 90%
Diseases killed this percent of indigenous groups in the Americas.
400
What is Catholicism
This religion was introduced by the Portuguese to the African Slaves
400
What is the abolition of Slavery?
This was finally achieved in Brazil in 1888
500
What is the Atacama Desert?
This desert in South America has regular cloud cover but only receives rain 5 times a century.
500
What is an uncontacted indigenous tribe?
Chief Almir's Surui tribe was this prior to 1969 and there are still some examples of this in Brazil today.
500
What is Syphilis
This was the only disease that was exchanged from the Americas back to Europe.
500
What is Sugar
This crop was the primary reason for the expansion of slavery in Brazil
500
What is Order and Progress
These two words appear on the Brazilian Flag today.






South America - Unit #9

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