Florida International University

Department of History
LAH 2020 – Latin American Civilization
Spring 2010

Map and Geography Exercise

Identify the following on the map: Be precise in your identification.

Total: 25 points

1. Buenos Aires
2. Potosí (South America)
3. Quito
4. Mexico City
5. Lima
6. Minas Gerais (Estado do)
7. Mexico City
8. Portobelo (Central America)
9. Tierra del Fuego
10. Santa Fe de Bogotá
11. Veracruz

Fill-in-the blanks:

Identify: Third largest, coldest, and less inhabited continent in the world,
_____________________, earlier known as Terra Australis Incognita.

Name three (Latin) American ports that were used by the Spaniards for the carrera
de Indias – transatlantic trade- that took place between the New World and Seville
in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

__________________ __________________________ ____________________

The Aztecs (Mexica) settled on a small island in the middle of Lake

_______________ and built their capital city__________________, at the center of
what is today Mexico City.

________________ Desert, in northern Chile at an altitude of 2,450 m above sea

level is the driest place on Earth.

Identify the largest island in South America: _______________________________

Identify island: _______________________ located in the ruins of Nueva Cádiz, this
island served as an outpost, built around pearl exploitation in the early sixteenth
century.

Located in northern Chile, ____________________ is one of the world’s largest

copper mines.

Name of two important New World crops borrowed by Europeans after 1492:

__________________________ _________________________

Twelve countries signed the original Antarctic Treaty on 1 December 1959 in

Washington, DC. Subsequently, another 35 countries signed onto the Antarctic
Treaty, making a total of 47 states. Over time, the treaty has been complemented by
other agreements. More recently, one important addition was the Environmental
Protection Protocol, signed in Madrid in 1991; it proclaimed Antarctica as a
“Natural reserve dedicated to peace and science.”
Name two Latin American nations that were part of the original twelve who signed
the treaty in 1959.

___________________________ ______________________