CSET SPANISH SUBTEST V Solved 100%

Greater Antillies - ANSWER-Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico Panama Capital & currency - ANSWER-Ciudad de Panama, Balboa Dominican Republic - ANSWER-Island of Santo Domingo Agriculture: sugarcane Capital is Santo Domingo $ - Domincan Peso Cuba - ANSWER-Capital is Havana, last Spanish Colony in the new world, $ Peso Dictator: Fidel Castro Puerto Rico - ANSWER-unincoproraged US, Capital - San Juan Us Dollar Guatemala - ANSWER-Ciudad de Guatemala Agriculture: coffee sugarcane, bananas, Currency: Quetzal Capital: Cuidad de Guatemala El Salvador - ANSWER-Smallest county in Central America Capital: San Salvador Civil War Coffee Currency: Colon Costa Rica - ANSWER-Capital: San Jose Currency: Colones Agriculture: pinapples, cocoa South American Countries that speak Spanish - ANSWER-Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador Non Spanish Speaking Countries in South America - ANSWER-Guyana, Surnam, Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil Central America - ANSWER-Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama Spanish Armada - ANSWER-feet of ships, very strong but was defeated by Queen Eliz I This started the defeat of the Spanish Empire Bourbons - ANSWER-Big influence in Europe Carlos II de espana hasta Felipe V Miguel de Unamuno - ANSWER-Spanish author - generation of 98. These artist affected by moral, political and social crisis in Spain. Their message was that Spaini needed to abandon its traditions and integrate into Europe Inquisition - ANSWER-purpose was to discover and punish heretics and crimes against blasphemy, bigamy and forbidden books . Aboloished in 1843 General Francisco Franco - ANSWER-Spanish dictator , defeated the republic and made spain and absolute dictatorship until his death in 1975 Domingo Fasutino Sarmiento - ANSWER-President of Argentina Writer and politicial Horacio Quiroga - ANSWER-Uruguay, writer influenced by Edgar Alan Poe Mexico - ANSWER-Estados Unidos de Mexico Aztecs, Mayans, Chimichecas, Agriculture minining Tourism Nicaragua - ANSWER-The first state to declare its independence Cotton, sugar, banana Capital- Managua Currrency-Cordoba Ecuador - ANSWER-1527 was discovered by the Spaniards Cap: Quito Currency: Us $ Economy: agriculture-bananas Colombia - ANSWER-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 - ANSWER-Established as a state in 1825 Cap: Montevideo Currency: Uruguayan peso Venezuela - ANSWER-Cap: Caracas Currency: Bolivar Cocoa 1811 Declared its independence Argentina - ANSWER-Stayed under spanish until 1816, Andes Mts, Cap Buenos Aires Peso Livestock and oil Paraguay - ANSWER-A river divides it East and West, No sea access, Fought against Spain and Argentina 2 languages: Spanish and Guarni Capital Asuncion $ Guarni Bolivia - ANSWER-Part of South America, Capital: La Paz Silver mines Three languages: Spanish, Quechua, Aymara Peru - ANSWER-Borders the pacific ocean Andes Machu Pichu Cap: Lima Currency: Sol Agriculture Languages: Spanish and Quechua Celia Cruz - ANSWER-Cantante Cubana Salsera Salsa Queen Fernando Botero - ANSWER-Boterismo Colombia pintor, matador, exaggerates volumes Placido Domingo - ANSWER-Spanish Opera Singer Educated in Mexico Frida Khalo - ANSWER-Mexican painter bright colors Influence by surrealism married to Diego Rivera Ernesto Sabato - ANSWER-Argentina Writer/painer El Tunel Diego Valazques - ANSWER-17th c portraits "Las Meninas" Influenced Dali & Picasso Spanish Architecture - ANSWER-Roman influence Moorish Romanesque/Gothic Gaudi Zarzuela - ANSWER-Spanish started 17th c Opera/Theater Went to cuba in the 19th c Spanish Cinema - ANSWER-Luis Bunuell, Carlos Saura, Pedro Almodovar Royal Spanish Academy - ANSWER-Created in 1713 Regulates spanish language Metric/Iimperial Systems - ANSWER-Spanish speaking countries use mostly metric Civil War - ANSWER-Nationalists vs. Republicans Nationalists won the war, this divided the country Spain was a dictatorship for 40 years until F Franco died Jose Clemente Orozco - ANSWER-Mexican Painter, murallist , politics influenced his work Francisco Goya - ANSWER-Spanish painter painted what he wanted, not what he was told Diego Rivera - ANSWER-Famous muralist Mexican Revaporization of Mexican roots El Cantor Mio Cid - ANSWER-Anonymous, 114o singing poem Takes place during the reconstruction Spanish Possessions - ANSWER-Baleares, Canarias, Ceuta & Melia