South America: Human geography
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- Q1descendants of those who lived on the continent before European explorers and settlers arrivedColonizationInca Empireindigenous peoplegeographical regions20s
- Q2Which is not one of the three main geographical regions of South America?Pacific coastAndes mountainsrivers of the Amazon BasinAtacama Desert20s
- Q3the most well-known indigenous culture of South America; established in 1438 in Cuzco, PeruAtzec EmpireMaya EmpireOlmec EmpireInca Empire20s
- Q4Process that caused the cultures of indigenous, European, and African people to mix and integratecolonizationmissionariescommunismpolitical geography20s
- Q5True or False: Indigenous societies continue to have a strong presence in South America.TrueFalse20s
- Q6_________________ is the backbone of many South American cultures.GeographyColonizationPoliticsReligion20s
- Q7Who colonized most of South America?BritainFrancePortugalSpain20s
- Q8Missionaries had ALL but the following impacts on native people?taught them to writeconverted them to Catholicismdeveloped writing systems for their languageenslaved them20s
- Q9a political system in which the government owns all property and people have few freedomsdemocracymonarchydictatorshipcommunism20s
- Q10a type of ownership where the state controls an industrynationalizationcommunismcolonizationcapitalism20s
- Q11when the government has sold industries to private companiesprivatizationnationalizationcolonizationcapitalism20s
- Q12_________________________ and _______________________ can be considered examples of developed countries in South America.Argentina and ChilePeru and EcuadorParaguay and UraguayVenezuela and Brazil20s
- Q13extremely crowded areas whose residents tend to live in extreme povertyenvironmentcolonycityslum20s
- Q14when natural resources are harvested for industry and cities are built upcolonizationurbanizationnationalizationprivatization20s
- Q15Some of the South America's poorest communities are indigenous populations in the mountains of all of the following countries, EXCEPTBoliviaEcuadorPeruArgentina20s