Exam 1: Latin America
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| show | Sierra Madre Oriental
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| mountain range on west coast of Mexico | show 🗑
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| show | orient
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| West | show 🗑
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| plateau in central Mexico | show 🗑
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| show | Central Mesa
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| < 30 " rainfall will result in | show 🗑
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| mountain range in southern Mexico | show 🗑
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| show | Sierra Madre del Sur
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| 1 of 31 Mexican states | show 🗑
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| trade alliance between Mexico, United States, and Canada | show 🗑
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| show | autonomy
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| mountains influence climate | show 🗑
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| windward slope casts dry, arid shadow on leeward slope | show 🗑
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| mountain range running through Central America | show 🗑
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| mountain range running through South America/ Chile | show 🗑
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| show | Andes
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| tallest peak in Western hemisphere | show 🗑
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| continents were once all together and are moving apart; Pangea | show 🗑
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| all of Earth's features are moving, not just the continents | show 🗑
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| developed the theory of continental drift/plate tectonics | show 🗑
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| show | subduction
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| highlands in northern South America | show 🗑
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| ore to get aluminum; big income | show 🗑
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| show | alumina
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| show | electrolysis
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| shiny, metallic, metal | show 🗑
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| more efficient than to refine and make new aluminum | show 🗑
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| show | Sierra Madre Oriental and Sierra Madre Occidental
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| a mountain range that runs parallel to a coastline | show 🗑
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| livestock ranching/grazing, 30 inches of precipitation | show 🗑
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| show | Sierra Madre del Sur
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| orographic effect, rain shadow | show 🗑
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| theory of continental drift/plate tectonics, Mount Aconcagua, Alfred Wegener | show 🗑
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| show | Guiana Highlands
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| show | Brazilian Highlands
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| highlands located on the east coast of Brazil | show 🗑
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| show | lava flows
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| show | coffee
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| conditions necessary for coffee | show 🗑
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| physiographic boundary | show 🗑
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| river that is the boundary between Mexico and the United States | show 🗑
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| physical features used as political boundaries | show 🗑
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| show | can change course
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| drainage basin | show 🗑
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| Andes in Peru -> Brazil -> Atlantic Ocean | show 🗑
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| show | Amazon River
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| 2nd largest in the world, most massive | show 🗑
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| show | drainage basin
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| show | Amazon River
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| too big to use for hydroelectricity | show 🗑
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| show | Parana- Paraguay River System
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| show | Itaipu Dam
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| show | estuary
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| estuary formed by the Parana-Paraguay River System | show 🗑
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| Paraguay and Brazil -> Atlantic | show 🗑
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| show | Mexico
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| show | Mayans
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| natives located in the Yucatan peninsula | show 🗑
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| show | Uxmal
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| show | Mayans
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| show | Mayans
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| show | Aztecs
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| show | Lake Texcoco
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| show | Tenochtitlan
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| modern day Mexico City | show 🗑
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| show | Mexico City
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| disproportionately large in population and embodies the national character of a country | show 🗑
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| most economically powerful; history tied to importance; only one in country | show 🗑
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| show | urban geography
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| leaving agriculture and moving to cities | show 🗑
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| causes decision to leave a place | show 🗑
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| causes decision to move to a place | show 🗑
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| show | PEMEX
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| money sent back to families by immigrants in other countries | show 🗑
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| Mexico's economy | show 🗑
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| British Empire, barrier reef | show 🗑
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| _________ stole British Honduras from Guatemala | show 🗑
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| show | barrier reef
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| language of Belize | show 🗑
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| Monroe Doctrine, banana republic | show 🗑
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| James Monroe's foreign policy;protection of Western hemisphere | show 🗑
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| show | banana republic
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| show | El Salvador
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| one of most densely populated countries in the world | show 🗑
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| show | demographic response
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| land is scarce, a lot of people trying to live off the land | show 🗑
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| plentiful natural resources: gold, oil, natural gas, gemstones | show 🗑
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| a wide variety of environments thanks to the Andes and the tropical lowlands in the southeast that allow wide varieties of crops to be grown, coupled with a pure location ideal for trade | show 🗑
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| rebel groups and the drug trade | show 🗑
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| the major drug here is cocaine, a stimulant extracted from the leaves of the coca plant | show 🗑
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| show | Colombia
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| show | Colombia
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| show | Colombia
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| show | Venezuela
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| show | proven reserve
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| Venezuela is too dependent on | show 🗑
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| 90% of Venezuela's income | show 🗑
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| show | monoeconomic state
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| Venezuela is a member of; a group of 12 countries that hold a significant percentage of the world’s oil reserves, and try to control the price by controlling the supply available on the market | show 🗑
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| show | OPEC
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| show | Uruguay
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| show | agriculture
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| Uruguay has very rich _________ | show 🗑
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| a major producer of beef and wheat | show 🗑
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| show | Pampas
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| group of islands Argentina has a dispute with the United Kingdom over | show 🗑
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| show | democracy
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| what is thought the Falkland Islands possess | show 🗑
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| study of shapes of political units like countries | show 🗑
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| show | elongated state
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| show | disadvantages of elongated state
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| show | advantages of elongated state
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| what Chile's northern third is dominated by | show 🗑
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| show | Atacama Desert
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| Chile's possession of world's largest reserves of two mineral sources, which are | show 🗑
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| show | Chile
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| show | Honduras
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| study of natural disasters | show 🗑
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| show | risk
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| show | vulnerability
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| show | Hurricane Mitch
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| show | Nicaragua
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| United States had military occupancy of | show 🗑
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| father-son ruling duo of Nicaragua | show 🗑
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| son that was corrupt when ruling ; had U.S. support | show 🗑
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| show | Sandinistas
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| Nicaragua's national guard | show 🗑
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| show | Soviet Union
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| show | Iran-Contra Scandal
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| show | Oliver North
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| biodiversity, ecotourism | show 🗑
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| show | Costa Rica
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| show | Costa Rica
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| tourists go to see biodiversity | show 🗑
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| cheap to maintain, generates a lot of revenue, tourists will help maintain landscapes | show 🗑
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| show | Costa Rica
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| show | Costa Rica
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| transoceanic canal, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Jimmy Carter, Manuel Noriega | show 🗑
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| show | Panama
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| shortcut from Atlantic to the Pacific | show 🗑
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| show | Ferdinand de Lesseps
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| gave canal to Panama to help repair relationship w/ Latin America | show 🗑
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| got independence from U.S. winning Spanish-American War | show 🗑
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| show | Fidel Castro
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| Fidel Castro allied himself with | show 🗑
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| show | Cuban Missile Crisis
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| Cuba's major benefactor | show 🗑
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| show | Jamaica
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| reggae music, Bob Marley | show 🗑
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| former French colony; poorest country in western hemisphere | show 🗑
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| show | Haiti
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| Haiti's neighbor | show 🗑
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| birthplace of more foreign-born baseball players than any other country | show 🗑
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| resource lottery, sugarcane, ethyl alcohol (ethanol), alcohol, Petrobras, forward capital, tropical, deforestation, favelas, plural society, soccer (futbol), Carnival, Brasilia, Amazon Basin, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo | show 🗑
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| Portuguese | show 🗑
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| show | resource lottery
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| Brazil produces | show 🗑
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| show | sugarcane
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| Brazil's energy company | show 🗑
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| moving capital forward to encourage growth | show 🗑
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| the forward capital city in Brazil | show 🗑
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| show | favelas
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| show | Rio de Janeiro
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| largest city in Brazil | show 🗑
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| where tropical deforestation takes place | show 🗑
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| rainforest chopped down to make room for agriculture and ranches | show 🗑
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| a lot of diversity (ethnic group), very little interaction amongst them | show 🗑
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| unifying factors of Brazil | show 🗑
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| former British colony previously known as British Guiana | show 🗑
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| Guyana is a major producer of | show 🗑
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| former colony of the Netherlands previously known as Dutch Guiana | show 🗑
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| show | South and Southeast Asians
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| still a possession of France today | show 🗑
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| European Space Agency’s main launching pad for satellites into outer space | show 🗑
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| show | The Guianas
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| War of the Triple Alliance | show 🗑
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| show | War of the Triple Alliance
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| Paraguay v. Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina | show 🗑
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| has the highest % of pure-blooded Native Americans | show 🗑
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| La Paz and Sucre; two capital cities | show 🗑
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| show | Sucre
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| eclipsed its importance post-independence for Bolivia | show 🗑
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| show | Peru
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| ruled and overthrown similar to Aztecs | show 🗑
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| highest lake in the world | show 🗑
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| downward-faulted block of the Earth's crust | show 🗑
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| show | primate city
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| islands Ecuador owns | show 🗑
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| show | Galapagos Islands
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