| A | B |
|---|
| navigable | wide and deep enough to allow ships |
| cash crop | product grown to be sold for export |
| campesinos | Columbian farmers |
| cordillera | group of mountain ranges that run side by side |
| empire | groups of lands under one ruler |
| foothills | low hill at the base of a mountain range |
| altiplano | large highland plateau |
| mestizo | mixed Spanish and Native American backgrounds |
| sodium nitrate | chemical used in fertilizer and explosives |
| Galapagos Islands | owned by Ecuador |
| Guatyaquil | Ecuador's most populated city |
| Central Valley | area of Chile with most people |
| Titicaca | highest navigable lake |
| Colombia | top producer of emeralds |
| Strait of Magellan | seperates Chile from Tierra del fuego |
| Coffee | Columbia's most important cash crop |
| Inca Empire | Peru was the center in 1400s |
| landlocked | Bolivia - no sea or ocean touches its land |
| agriculture | Ecuador's most important economic activity |
| copper | Chile's is the leading producer |
| Major land areas of Peru | deserts, mountains, rain forest |
| What Columbus didn't find | domesticated animals |
| enslaved labor | started because of planting of sugar |
| African cooking | shaped American cooking |
| staples food of the poor and working class | potato |
| highest country in South America | Bolivia |
| South-Central Bolivia | fertile farming |
| plantains and copper | exports of Peru |
