Population, Migration, and History of Latin America

• There are many different languages of Latin America but the main one is ___.• However the largest country in Latin America is ___ and its language is ____.• Also, in the rainforests and remote areas of Latin America there are still ___

languages spoken from the ancient times.• But most people of Latin America speak two languages and are considered ___.• Most of the people of Latin America live along the ___.• People do not really live in the jungle because of ______.• Many people in Latin America are migrating.• They are moving to the country of ___ in search of ____.• Some people come to the United States through legitimate means but many come

to the United States ___.

• Most people in Latin America are moving from the country to the city and this is called ___.

• There are also some very large cities in Latin America.• A city with over 10 million people is called a ___ and the largest of them

in Latin America is ____.• Many people live well in the large cities but so many are moving to large

cities that ___________________ are all hard to come by.• Many cities in Latin America are called ___ because they dominate the

countries economy, culture, and political affairs.

• Before ___ arrived in Latin America there were many Native societies in Latin America.

• The three main ones were the _________.• The first group, the ___, lived on the Yucatan Peninsula and used picture

writing called ___ that was carved into stone.• They also painted large pictures on walls called ____.• This is part of Latin American heritage to this day and is a way that they

preserve and document their ____.• They also built temples to their gods that were in the shape of ___.• They even had a calendar that was ___ days long.

• The next group, which grew up around what is now Mexico City, was the ___.• They had the capital of ___ which was built on a large lake.• The Aztec gave many important foods to the world like __________________.• Imagine Italian food before tomatoes?!• In the 1500’s, when ___ came to Central America, goods were traded between Europe

and Central America in what is now called the ____.• Latin America gave the tomatoes, chocolate, and corn, while the Europeans gave ____,

____, and ____.• Cultures were also exchanged between the two areas.• Europeans brought ___ to work the plantations and African culture can be found in

Latin America in places like ____ and ____.

• Finally, the last major Native group of Latin America was the ___ which lived in the Andes Mountains of South America.

• They built fortresses out of cut rock that fit so perfectly you could not fit a piece of ___ through it.• They also built large ___ through the mountains for transportation.• They also domesticated the ___ which served as food, clothes, and transportation so they never invented

the wheel.• They also farmed mountains by modifying their environment by building ____.• With this technique the mountains would look like a series of ____.• If the terraces would not be built then a ____ would wash the crops away.• Most of the Native American cultures in Latin America grew just enough food to survive which is called

_____ farming.• Many poorer groups in this region still do this today.• They still use ____ techniques and depend on the climate, ____, and topography of the land to grow their

crops.