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.