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Colombia | Country in South America experiencing a violent drug war and is working to prevent the planting of coca |
Panama | Country in Central America that is the location of a major shipping canal |
Uruguay | Country in South America that is a buffer state between Argentina and Brazil |
Argentina | Country in South America where you can find cowboys called “gauchos” |
Brazil | Country in South America that will host the 2016 Summer Olympics |
Chile | Country in South America that produces the majority of the world’s salmon |
Belize | Smallest country in Central America and only country not to have Spanish as the official language |
Portugal | Country that colonized Brazil and left behind its language |
Bolivia | Country in South America that has had over 200 military coups; majority of its people are Inca |
Nicaragua | Country in Central America that has a large lake surrounded by volcanoes |
Coup | Taking power by force |
Spanish | Official language of almost all of Central and South America |
Mestizo | People of mixed European and Indian background |
Maquiladora | American owned factories on the Mexican side of the border |
NAFTA | Free trade agreement between the U.S. Mexico and Canada |
RomanCatholic | Official religion of almost all of Central and South America |
Panamacanal | Until its opening people had to sail around the southern tip of South America to get goods from the Atlantic to Pacific Oceans |
Portunol | A mix between Portuguese and Spanish |
BufferState | A state that lies between two greater hostile powers |
Quechua | Native language spoken by 10 to 13 million people in the Andes Mountains |
Inca | Native group that lived in the Andes Mountains and were conquered by the Spanish |
AmazonRainforest | This is estimated to disappear from South America in 40 to 50 years |
Mulatto | People of mixed African and other ancestry |
Aquaculture | Another name for fish farming or salmoneras |
Tordesillas | Portugal took control of Brazil as a result of this treaty |
Cortes | Spanish conquistador that was mistaken for the god Quetzalcoatl |
Shipping | A possible solution to the housing problems in Mexico is to build homes out of what type of container |
Aztec | Native group that built their capitol at Tenochtitlan and was known for human sacrifice |
Tenochtitlan | Aztec capital formed on an island |
Archipelago | Chain of islands |
Hispaniola | Caribbean Island that is hope to both the Dominican Republic and Haiti |
GreaterAntilles | Volcanic islands that include Cuba Jamaica Hispaniola and Puerto Rico |
LesserAntilles | Volcanic island chain that forms a curving arc between the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea |
Bahamas | Caribbean country made up of over 700 coral islands |
PuertoRico | Caribbean Island that is a territory of the United States and is considering statehood |
Calypso | Music from Trinidad that combines Spanish and African elements |
Reggae | Music from Jamaica that deals with political and social issues |
Rastafarianism | Religion in Jamaica |
Voodoo | Religion in Haiti that combines African |
Santeria | Caribbean religion that combines Catholic and African elements |
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