| A | B |
|---|
| West Indies | other name for the Caribbean |
| Andes | longest mountain range in the world |
| Sierra Madre Occidental | run along west side of Mexico |
| Sierra Madre Oriental | run along east side of Mexico |
| Altiplano | "high plain" in Bolivia |
| Patagonia | area of hills and low tablelands in southern Argentina and Chile |
| Mexican Plateau | between the Sierra Madres |
| Amazon River | runs 4,000 miles and drains Brazil |
| Rio Grande | border between US (Texas) and Mexico |
| Lake Titicaca | highest lake in the world, located between Peru and Bolivia |
| Angel Falls | highest waterfall in world, located in Venezuela |
| Maya empire | located on Yucatan peninsula and in central America |
| Aztec empire | located at current day site of Mexico city |
| Incan empire | located in present day Peru, but empire stretched 2,500 miles |
| Tenochtitlan | capital city of the Aztec empire |
| Cuzco | capital city of the Incan empire |
| 1492 | when Columbus "sailed the ocean blue" |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | Pope Alexander VI divided the new world between Spain and Portugal |
| hacienda | Spanish plantation |
| Portugal | European country that colonized Brazil |
| mestizos | people of European and native ancestory |
| mulattoes | people of European and African ancestory |
| Brazil | country in Latin America that gained independence peacefully |
| caudillos | military dictator |
| coup | when one caudillos overthrows another |
| Puerto Rico | US territory in the Caribbean |
| Elizabeth I | who the Virgin Islands were named for |
| Spanish | the most widely spoken language in Latin America |
| Portuguese | language spoken in Brazil |
| Roman Catholic | religion of about 90% of Latin Americans |
| mosaics | pictures or designs made out of colored pieces of material set together |
| coffee | major crop of Brazil |
| bananas | major crop of Honduras |
| cattle | major export of Argentina |
| Cayenne | French Guiana |
| Georgetown | Guyana |
| Paramaribo | Suriname |
| Caracas | Venezuela |
| Bogota | Colombia |
| Quito | Ecuador |
| Lima | Peru |
| La Paz | Bolivia |
| Asuncion | Paraguay |
| Montevideo | Uruguay |
| Buenos Aires | Argentina |
| Santiago | Chile |
| Tegucigalpa | Honduras |
| Havana | Cuba |
| Kingston | Jamaica |
| San Jose | Costa Rica |
| Panama Canal | man-made waterway that connects the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean |
| twenty | base number of Mayan math |
