1. South America Study Guide Review

2. Pizarro Spanish explorer who landed on the western coast of S.A. and conquered the Inca with horses, guns, 200 soldiers

3. Simon Bolivar General who freed the northern parts of South America starting with a revolution in Venezuela

4. Jose San Martin General who defeated the Spanish in the southern part of South America

5. European countries colonizing South America Spain, Portugal

6. Inca’s demise Inca’s civil war had weakened them, then defeated by Pizarro

7. Products sent from the colonies to Spain and Portugal sugar, silver, gold

8. Causes of Native American deaths European disease and overwork

9. Reasons South Americans wanted independence wanted to share in the political power and economic power; mestizos and mulattos wanted to be treated better

10. Models for independence revolutions American and French revolutions

11. OAS and its goals Organization of American States Goals: economic cooperation, social justice, equality of people

12. Changes in South American population over time immigrants from Spain and Portugal changed the population most people are mestizos (European and native) and mulattos (African and European) After 1800s accompanied by other immigrants from other European nations

13. Transportation Corridors Definition: a path that makes transportation easier Example: Amazon River

14. Transportation Barriers Definition: a geographical feature that slows or prevents transportation Example: Rain forest, desert, Andes

15. Natural resources exported minerals, copper, tin, gold, iron ore, lead, petroleum,

16. Farm exports beef, grain, sugar, bananas, coffee, wool

17. Brazil’s industrial products cars, computers, televisions, planes

18. Free trade zone people and goods move across borders without being taxed

19. Economic indicators statistics that show how a country’s economy is doing – literacy rate, life expectancy

20. Urbanization Definition: many people have moved from the countryside to the city Factors: growth of manufacturing jobs in the cities, poverty in rural areas, jobs, schools, health services available in cities