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