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What tributaries are larger than the rivers in America?
the tributaries of the Amazon
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how wide in the Amazon?
10 miles wide
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How much does the river height of the Amazon fluctuate in the rainy season?
90 feet
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How far into the Amazon can you take an ocean going vessel?
Iquitoes, Peru
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What is Iquitos, Peru known for?
a major oil port
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Where is it possible to still get fresh water in the ocean?
at the very opening to the ocean from the Amazon river
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What area in South America is like the west in America?
The Brazilian Highlands
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Brazil moved their capital from Rio De Janeiro to where?
Brasilia
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Why did Brazil move their capital from Riod De Janeiro to Brasilia
Because it was in the center of the Brazilian Highlands and therefore central to the whole country
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How did they outline the government buildings in Brasilia?
like a jetplane
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How did they design all the buildings in Brazilia?
Like the buildings of Frank Lloyd Write
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Where is one of the wildest places on earth?
Guiana Highlands in Venesuela
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What area in South America is a lot like the midwest?
Pompous
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Where did they develop Argentina?
the Pompous
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What did they develop in the Pompous?
great big ranches
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What countries were part of the Chaco?
Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
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What area in South America was like the savanna?
Chaco
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Why did the Chaco become populated?
because they found oil
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Britain and Argentina are both fighting over what islands?
Falkland Islands
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What do the Argentinians call the Falkland Islands?
Malvinas
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Why do they call it latin America?
because a large amount of people who live there speak a language that derived from latin
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What two South American countries are trying to claim Antarctica?
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How many tourists go to Antarctica every year?
6-7,000 tourists
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Why can't any one country claim Antarctica?
because it is dedicated to research
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What resources have they found in Antarctica?
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how thick is the ice in Antarctica?
14,000 feet deep
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What native group lived in Middle America?
Aztecs
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What native people lived in South America orginally?
Incans
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What people claimed to come to the Americas in 1421?
the Chinese
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What 3 people groups claim to have found America before Columbus?
- Chinese
- Irish
- Vikings
- Mormons
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What do the Mormons claim?
that they were the lost tride of Israel and Jesus brought them to the new world
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What did the Conquistadors want at first?
precious metals
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A lot of conquistadors wouldn't be funded unless they did what?
promised to convert the people to Christianity (Catholicism)
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What Queen got her way in financing Columbus?
Queen Isabel
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What religion is a huge part of the culture of Latin America?
Roman Catholicism
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What conquistador came over to the Incas in Peru?
Pissarro
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What was the brutal thing that Pissarro did the natives of Peru?
- he would decapitate them if they converted
- he would pour gold down their throats and pull out their fingernails and toenails at the same time if they didn't convert
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What did the pope issue to draw the Meridian line to divide the territory in South America?
Papal bowl
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Where did the pope originally draw the Meridian line to divide the territory?
The Atlantic Ocean
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What was it called when the pope gave Spain the area east of the Meridian Line and Portugal got the area to the west?
The treaty of Torbesillas
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Which country decided to keep their whole country in one big lump in South America?
the Portuguese with Brazil
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Which country decided to divide up the land in South America after the treaty of Torbesillas?
Spain
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Spain decided to divide up their land, what did they call the divisions?
vice royalties
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Who were the vice royalties led by?
the King's friends
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What were the leaders of the vice royalties called?
vice roys
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What was the land that the the vice roys divided the vice royalties into?
Haciendas
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What was happening in Europe during the time that the Southern Americans were fighting for their freedom?
Napoleon was running around taking things over
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What was it like in latin America when they were fighting for independence?
- one big game of King of the Hill
- one revolution after another
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In Paraguay how many presidents did they have in 20 years?
21 presidents
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how many of Paraguay's presidents were assasinated?
19
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What did they did they do in Columbia to solve the part killing issues?
one party controls the government for 4 years and then control switches over
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Where are the places in South America where revolutions start?
Colleges and Universities
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what is the term for a mixed blooded person with Iberian and native?
Mestizos
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What percent of Mexicans are mestizos?
90%
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How far away is South America from Africa?
2,000 miles
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Where did the Africans first go to when they were brought over to the Americas?
the Caribbean
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What is the term for mixed blood of African and natives
Zambos
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What is the term for a mixed race of white and native?
Malato
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