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Eco tourism

Travel to a natural habitat in a way that does not damage the habitat.

One crop

An economy that depends on a single crop for income.

Taino

Indian group in the Caribbean islands.

Spain and slavery

In the 1500s, Spanish explorers built a huge empire in the Americas.

Treaty of Tordesillas

1494 treaty that allocated land that is now part of Brazil.

Don Pedro 1

Brazil's first Portuguese emperor who declared Brazil's independence from Portugal in 1822.

Don Pedro 2

Second emperor of Brazil under whose rule slavery was abolished in Brazil in 1888.

Hydro electricity

Electric power generated by water.

Deforestation

The cutting and clearing away of trees.

Fossil fuels

Fuel such as coal, oil, and natural gas.

Manor

A noble's house and the villages on his land where the peasants live.

Republic

Another term for representative democracy.

Renaissance

A rebirth of creativity, literature, and learning in Europe in the 1600s.

Holocaust

The systemic murder of Jews and other minorities by the Nazis during World War II.

European Union

An organization of European nations whose members cooperate on economic, social, and political issues.

North Atlantic Drift

Warm ocean currents that help keep Europe's climate mild.

Athens and democracy

Regular people had a direct say in how their city was run.

Feudalism

A political system in which lords gave land to vassals in exchange for services.

Industrial revolution

The shift that began in Britain in the 1760s from making goods by hand to making them by machine.

French revolution

A conflict in France from 1789 to 1799 that ended the monarchy and changed the way France was governed.

Byzantine revolution

The conquest by the Islamic Ottoman Turks.

Romance languages

Languages that develop from Latin, such as Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Romanian.

Benelux

An economic union formed by Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.

Berlin Wall

A wall built by East Germany's communist government to close off East Berlin from West Berlin.

Moors

A group of Muslims from North Africa who conquered Spain in the eighth century.

Reconquista

The successful effort by the Spanish to drive the Moors out of Spain.

World War II in Germany

Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party controlled Germany in 1933 and promised to expand German territory.

Communism

An economic system in which the government holds nearly all political power and the means of production in the name of the people.

Dictator

A person with complete control over a country's government.

Federal Republic

A form of government in which power is divided between a national government and state governments.

Simone Bolivar

A leader for independence in northern South America.

Amazon River

South America's longest river, about 4000 miles or 6400 km.

Aztec

An early civilization in the Valley of Mexico.

Inca

An early civilization in the Andes Mountains of Peru.

Mestizo

A person with mixed European and Indian ancestry.

How are the Olmec, Maya, and Aztec related?

They built upon each other's ideas, passing down knowledge like a chain of history.

Where is the world's largest tropical rainforest?

The Amazon rainforest.

Where was the Mayan civilization located?

In Central America and Southern Mexico called Mesoamerica.

How did the Incas keep records?

Using quipus.

Who defeated the Aztec and Inca empires?

Spanish explorers and soldiers known as conquistadors.

How did most South American countries become independent?

By rebelling against Spain and Portugal.