The longest mountain range on land - answer-Andes Mountains
The highest peak in the Western Hemisphere - answer-Mount Aconcagua
the largest river basin in the world - answer-Amazon River Basin
Largest rainforest in the world - answer-Amazon Rainforest
World's highest waterfall - answer-...
World Geography Chapter 7 South America
The longest mountain range on land - answer-Andes Mountains
The highest peak in the Western Hemisphere - answer-Mount Aconcagua
the largest river basin in the world - answer-Amazon River Basin
Largest rainforest in the world - answer-Amazon Rainforest
World's highest waterfall - answer-Angel Falls
Mestizos - answer-A person of mixed Native American and European ancestory
Tepuis - answer-A chain of high plateaus in the Guiana Highlands
Creóles - answer-Spanish children born in the New World
Simon Bolivar - answer-Venezuelan statesman who led the revolt of South American colonies against
Spanish rule
Fransisco Pizarro - answer-Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan Empire
Inca - answer-Amerindians of the Andes who developed the most advanced political society in pre-
Columbian America
El Nino - answer-A warm ocean current that flows along the coast of Peru every seven to fourteen years
Aymarás - answer-Indians that established one of the Americas' earliest empires along the shore of Lake
Titicaca
Pedro Cabral - answer-Claimed Brazil for Portugal
Chaco War - answer-war fought between Paraguay and Bolivia over access to the Gran Chaco and the
Parana River
gaucho - answer-South American cowboy
Explain the importance of the line of demarcation in the development of South America - answer-The
line was set by Pope Alexander VI to separate the land owned by Spain and Portugal. Everything west of
the line was Spain's everything east of the line was Portugal's
How was the Inca Empire influential in shaping the pre-Columbian culture of the northern Andes? -
answer-The Incas conquered most of the Andes and spread their art, architecture, culture, etc. They
were also very advanced for their time.
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