Saturday, January 1, 2000

Crash Course - Latin American Revolutions

Questions for this Crash Course episode were written by Isabel Geisler.
  1. What is the job of the colonies?
  2. Government and the church are two of the three institutions present in Latin America.  What was the third?
  3. What are the three major racial categories present during the colonial period of Latin America?
  4. Which colony wasn’t ruled by Spain?
  5. Brazil manages to revolt without any bloodshed, how does this affect the country later?
  6. Who leads Mexico in a massive revolution?
  7. In regards to a successful revolution, what conclusion does Simon Bolivar come to?
  8. What dream of Bolivar fails?
  9. In what sense is Latin-America a leader of western ideals?
  10. What happens to the rigid social structure?