1. LATIN AMERICA
Regents Review

2. GEOGRAPHY
Regions: Central America, South America, and Islands in the Caribbean Sea.

3. Latin America

4. Geography of Latin America
Isolation and Protection due to the oceans and the ignorance of the Europeans, who believed the world was flat.

5. Latin American Geography
Varied Climate, topography – some mountains, plains, grasslands, rainforests, with settlement mainly along the coast.

6. AMAZON RAINFOREST

7. Society of Latin America
Early Civilizations: Maya, Inca, Aztec which were well organized and advanced.

8. Early Civilizations of L.A.

9. THE MAYA

10. MAYAN RUINS

11. INCA

12. Latin American History
1492 – The Arrival of Columbus and the opening of trade between the old world and the new world called the Columbian Exchange

13. Columbus

14. History of Latin America
Death of Natives due to disease and the importation of slaves from Africa via the Middle Passage.

15. History of Latin America
Colonization begins (mainly by Spain) as the conquistadors are sent to destroy the natives civilizations (examples Cortez, Pizzaro.)

16. CORTES

17. Spanish Imperialism Spanish unfairly rule over Latin America
Unfair social order with no social mobility: Penninsulares at the top, followed by Creoles, Mestizos and mulattos, then natives and Africans at the bottom.

19. Encomienda System
Cash crops grown on large plantations where the Spanish owned all land and the natives could not own land.

20. Independence Movements
Inspired by the Enlightenment and success of the American and French Revolutions.

21. Independence Leaders Simon Bolivar Toussant L’Overture
Jose de San Martin.

22. Simon Bolivar Political and Military independence leader during 1800s
Led Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Panama to Independence and Democracy.

23. Modern Events in Latin America
Issues over the ownership of the Panama Canal

24. PANAMA CANAL

25. PANAMA CANAL

26. Modern Events in Latin America
Communism in Cuba under Fidel Castro and in Nicaragua under the Sandinistas.

27. CASTRO

28. TONY MONTANA

29. Modern Events in Latin America
Move away from military dictatorship and toward democracy today.