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• Panama Capital & currency -✓✓Ciudad de Panama, Balboa
• Dominican Republic -✓✓Island of Santo Domingo
Agriculture: sugarcane
Capital is Santo Domingo
$ - Domincan Peso
• Cuba -✓✓Capital is Havana, last Spanish Colony in the new world, $
Peso
Dictator: Fidel Castro
• Puerto Rico -✓✓unincorporated US,
Capital - San Juan
Us Dollar
• Guatemala -✓✓Ciudad de Guatemala
Agriculture: coffee sugarcane, bananas,
Currency: Quetzal
Capital: Cuidad de Guatemala
• El Salvador -✓✓Smallest country in Central America
Capital: San Salvador
Civil War
Coffee
Currency: Colon
• Costa Rica -✓✓Capital: San Jose
Currency: Colones
Agriculture: pinapples, cocoa
,• South American Countries that speak Spanish -✓✓Chile, Bolivia,
Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru
• Non Spanish Speaking Countries in South America -✓✓Guyana,
Surnam, Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil
• Central America -✓✓Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua,
Costa Rica, Panama
• Spanish Armada -✓✓fleet of ships, very strong but was defeated by
Queen Eliz I This started the defeat of the Spanish Empire
• Bourbons -✓✓Big influence in Europe
Carlos II de espana hasta Felipe V
• Miguel de Unamuno -✓✓Spanish author - generation of 98. These
artists affected by moral, political and social crisis in Spain. Their
message was that Spain needed to abandon its traditions and integrate
into Europe
• Inquisition -✓✓purpose was to discover and punish heretics and crimes
against blasphemy, bigamy and forbidden books .
Aboloished in 1843
• General Francisco Franco -✓✓Spanish dictator 1936-1939, defeated
the republic and made spain and absolute dictatorship until his death in
1975
• Domingo Faustino Sarmiento -✓✓President of Argentina 1868-1874
Writer and politicial
• Horacio Quiroga -✓✓Uruguay, writer influenced by Edgar Alan Poe
, • Mexico -✓✓Estados Unidos de Mexico
Aztecs, Mayans, Chimichecas,
Agriculture mining
Tourism
• Nicaragua -✓✓The first state to declare its independence
Cotton, sugar, banana
Capital- Managua
Currrency-Cordoba
• Ecuador -✓✓1527 was discovered by the Spaniards
Cap: Quito
Currency: Us $
Economy: agriculture-bananas
• Colombia -✓✓South America, South of Panama, It starts the continent
of South America.
Spanish colonized it and called it "nueva granada"
Economy: agriculture (coffee, corn, rice)
• Uruguay -✓✓Established as a state in 1825
Cap: Montevideo
Currency: Uruguayan peso
• Venezuela -✓✓Cap: Caracas
Currency: Bolivar
Cocoa
1811 Declared its independence
• Argentina -✓✓Stayed under spanish until 1816, Andes Mts,
Cap Buenos Aires
Peso
Livestock and oil