Unit+2+Latin+America

= Latin America =


 * Andes Mountain 5,000 miles along the west coast
 * Pampas-southern plains
 * Amazon River 4,000 miles, 1000 tributaries
 * Deforestation

Climate
-How would you describe this? ALot of water, fruits, palm trees, and tropical plants. Rain forest, and warm. El Nino - Think its August in January -Floods in Latin America
 * Tropical
 * Westerly trade winds die out, Ocean Temperature, warm
 * Warm water = Warm aie
 * Warm air = More moisture

What happened > - Cortez, 1519, 500 men > - Claimed land for Spain, had to deal montezuma & the aztec > -Cortez was welcomed as a god > -Slaves help the Spanish > -Aztec outmatched, Tenochtitlan falls
 * [|Maya]
 * [|Aztec]
 * [|Inca]
 * Machu Picchu[[image:http://news.blog.gustavus.edu/files/2010/01/Machu-Picchu.jpg width="648" height="473"]]- Mexico roots & today
 * Spanish__