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        | A narrow passageway that connects two large bodies of water. P230 |  | 
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        | The thick tropical rain forests of eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru, and northern Bolivia.  P231 |  | 
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        | A cold ocean current off the coast of western South America.  P231 |  | 
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        | An ocean and weather pattern in the Pacific Ocean in which ocean waters become warmer.  P232 |  | 
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        | A native plant of South America’s Andean region that yields nutritious seeds.  P233 |  | 
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        | Complicated systems of knots tied on strings of various colors, used by the Inca of South America to record information.  P234 |  | 
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        | The governor of a colony.  P236 |  | 
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        | American-born descendants of Europeans in Spanish South America.  P236 |  | 
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        | A sudden overthrow of a government by a small group of people.  P237 |  | 
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        | The language of South America’s Inca; still spoken in the region.  P238 |  | 
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        | A small group of military officers who rule a country after seizing power.  P241 |  | 
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