AP Human Geography 4.4 Intro to Geography

when we're thinking about new world toponyms aka

place names it's always helpful to think about the history of those places as we [Nurse with the planet Earth]

know the new world is the Americas and the history of the Americas is very

deeply tied to colonialism otherwise known as the European tradition of

arriving somewhere and then taking a whole bunch of stuff that they liked [Man collecting apples from tree]

while the Spanish conquered most of Latin America so naturally we find a lot

of Spanish toponyms there however Brazil was conquered by Portugal not Spain

what's more it's important to remember that the naming of places has a lot more [Portuguese soldiers carrying Portugal flag]

to do with who did the conquering with their guns and their flags than with any

kind of cultural or religious solidarity with those conquerors so the answer that

best captures all that well it's C - Brazil is conquered by Portugal and

reflects this colonial heritage in its toponyms, so if you go to Brazil you'll

probably pick up a few words in Portuguese though if you spend your entire [Boy reading Portuguese to English dictionary]

trip in the library you might be vacationing incorrectly