Part 6 Flashcards
How large is Mexico compared to the rest of Middle America?
It is bigger than all the rest combined
How large is Mexico City?
Mexico city is the urban primacy meaning that it is one city that dominates everything else
What economic agreement should be helping Mexico’s economy?
NAFTA: North American Free Trade Agreement
Why is the demographic situation in Belize so fascinating?
It is the honeymoon destination so there is great tourism
What natural disaster (worst in W. Hem. history) devastated Honduras and Nicaragua in 1998?
Hurricane Mitch
What country (known as the Switz. of L. Amer.) has the oldest democracy in Latin America?
Costa Rica
What country tried unsuccessfully to construct a Panama Canal in the 1880’s?
France
What did the “Treaty of Tordesillas” do?
Divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe and Spain and Portugal along a meridan west of Cape verde islands (off west coast of Africa)
Under whose orders was Treaty of Tordesillas?
Pope Alexander VI
What radical move did the Portuguese gov’t do to stop Brazil from winning independence?
By moving the capital to Rio to invade Napoleon.
What country is to blame for the Trans-Andean pipeline oil spill?
Ecuador
