URP3001 Module 4

12 October 2022
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Old San Juan is typical of cities founded by the Spanish in America in that it has:
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A rectilinear grid and central plaza
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Havana's prosperity during the first hundred years of its existence was tied to its role as:
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A transshipment point for goods bound for Seville
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What crop had consolidated Central America's national capitals by the end of the 19th century?
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Coffee
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Which city among the following has the highest per capita income and the lowest rates of gang violence?
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San José
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In general, the historico centros of cities in Middle America and the Caribbean have:
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Survived generally intact from colonial times into the 21st century
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What drove the initial demand for African slaves in the Caribbean Basin?
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Sugar plantations
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The European settlement of Middle America and the Caribbean began circa:
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1500 A.D/C.E
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Which one of the following is not true of the development that stretches from Cancun to Belize City?
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It's primary driver is casino gambling
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According to the Griffin-Ford model, what category of land use borders the "spine" of a Latin American city?
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Elite residential land use
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The migration of Mexican workers to the United States began in the 1940s because:
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Labor was needed by US corporate farms