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| The term "Latin America" was devised by: |
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| By 1952_____ was Argentina's biggest "private" enterprise |
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| The video "Aguirre, the wrath of God" illustrated: |
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| The difficult natural conditions confronting European efforts to conquer the Amazon. |
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| In the Amazon before the arrival of the Europeans, most of the indigenous peoples relied on: |
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| Agriculture in the floodplains. |
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| The squatter settlements called callampas in Chile typically begin by: |
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| A ritualized seizure of a vacant suburban lot by recent migrants and homeless workers. |
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| Before the Cuban Revolution, the largest investors in Cuba were: |
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| Necessary conditions for the success of neoliberalism included all of the following execpt: |
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| Political control by the military to keep politicians from corrupting these development efforts. |
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| The Pinochet government lost power after: |
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| a vote on whether he should continue as president resulted in a majority voting no |
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| Bolivia was conquered by Spain the 1500s and exported thousands of tons of silver to Spain during the colonial era. After Bolivia became independent, large deposits of tin were discovered and developed by a British mining company for exporting tin to Great Britain. Despite this natural resource wealth and millions of dollars in annual export revenues from these minerals, the nation of Bolivia and its people remain some of the poorest in the world. This is an example of all of the following EXCEPT: |
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| The most important threat to the nations of Europe during the 1400's and 1500's was: |
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| Agriculture systems in Latin America during the colonial period included all of the following EXECPT: |
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| Large numbers of small farmers. |
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| In the Malvinas/Falkland war: |
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| Argentina was defeated by Great Britian |
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| The Jesuit missionaries in the Amazon: |
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| Sought to protect indigenous groups from from exploitation. |
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| ______is defined as economic progress measured either by economic growth or in social terms of the overall well-being of the population. |
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| _____ were defined as the leaders of kinship groups in the Peruvian Andes who allocated labor and goods among the members of the group. |
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| The rival models of political and development in the 1930's included all of the following except: |
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| Bureaucratic authoritarianism. |
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| When the Brazilian military took power in 1964, they sought to resolve the country’s economic and political problems by promoting the building of factories to produce airplanes and machinery, exporting raw materials from the Amazon, and reducing workers’ wages. The military government relied on civilian technocrats to manage the economy, and these government officials borrowed billions of dollars to finance these efforts. This is an example of all of the following EXCEPT: |
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| The Haitian social revolution was important for Latin America and the world because it was the first revolution: |
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| in which slaved defeated a European imperial power and gained their freedom. |
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| Impacts of the discovery of large deposits of gold, silver and mercury in the Peruvian Andes on the indigenous peoples of the region included all of the following Execpt: |
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| The indigenous population of the region was completely wiped out by difficult working conditions in the mines. |
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| The limits of the ISL-based growth in Latin America included all of the following except: |
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| The lack of natural resources to supply industry. |
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| most of the wheat, corn and flax grown in Argentina in the late 1800's and early 1900's.... |
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| was grown by immigrant tenant farmers. |
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| The key to Maya agriculture technology between 1,000 BC and 400 AD that allowed the development of large cities was: |
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| After Argentina became independent, the new constitution called for democratic elections and the protection of individual rights. However, when small business owners and workers on ranches owned by large landowners pushed for their rights under the constitution, the large landowners supported a coup led by a regional military leader that restored the political control of the large landowners and ended democracy. This is an example of all of the following EXCEPT: |
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| British investment built Argentina's Railroads. |
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| The reasons why Europeans were able to conquer Latin America included all of the following EXECPT: |
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| Large armies composed mainly of African Slaves. |
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| During the 1500's ______ conquered Brazil. |
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| _______is defined as a process of exploitation of a periphery by a core nation that benefits the core nation's economic growth but leaves the periphery with a legacy of inequality, lost resources, political instability, and environmental degradation that makes future development very difficult to achieve. |
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| ______is defined as producing consumer durables like cars and airplanes and the machinery and other inputs used in factories. |
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| Capital goods industrialization |
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| The Latin American colonies of _______ rebelled during the 1810s and 1820's and won independence. |
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| _____replaced Spain as the major investor and trading partner in Latin America after most Latin American nations became independent in the early 1800's. |
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| _____ is economic progress measured either by economic growth or in social terms of the overall well-being of the population. |
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| Most of the land in Latin AMerica during the colonial period from the 1500's through the 1820's______ |
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| Was owned by large landowners. |
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| After independence in the 1820's, the nations of Latin America: |
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| Modeled their laws after France and the U.S. |
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| _____conquered most of what later became the nations of Latin America during the 1500's |
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| For the nations of Latin America, the obstacles to becoming wealthy and industrialized by following the models of Europe and the U.S., include all of the following except: |
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| Difficult natural characteristics made it impossible to effectively implement development plans in every nation. |
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| Reasons why Europe was able to become the wealthiest, most powerful region in the world by the 1800's include all of the following EXCEPT: |
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| the core was never undeveloped. |
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| Reasons why Europe was able to become the wealthiest, most powerful region in the world by the 1800's include all of the following EXCEPT: |
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| the core was never undeveloped. |
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| The Brazilian military governments export-led development efforts included all of the following EXCEPT: |
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| sing workers' wages so that they could buy Brazilian made industrial products |
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| After Venezuela became independent, the country's new constitution was based on democratic principles of voting for the president and members of Congress. In the nation's first elections after independence, however, the large landowners did not permit small business owners, craftsmen, and other free workers (people who were not slaves) to vote. When a group of small business owners, craftsmen, and free workers organized an armed rebellion, the commanding general of the Venezuelan army had the rebels hung and declared himself president, stating that the country was not yet ready to be a democracy. This is an example of all of the following EXCEPT: |
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| The role of race and ethnicity in Latin America. |
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| Peru, a nation in Latin America, produced thousands of tons of silver and gold during the colonial era that were exported to Spain. This led to Peru: |
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| Becoming one of the most underdeveloped nations in the world because of these close ties to the core. |
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| ____ was the first colonial laboratory in which the characteristic institutions on Spanish Empire were tried and tested, modified and adapted to the special conditions of the New World. |
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