{"id":2883,"date":"2013-07-23T16:21:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T21:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/modernlatinamerica\/?page_id=2883"},"modified":"2013-07-23T16:21:07","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T21:21:07","slug":"chapter-4-discussion-questions-central-america-and-the-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/chapters\/chapter-5-central-america\/chapter-4-discussion-questions-central-america-and-the-caribbean\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Why has the Gulf of Mexico (plus the Caribbean Sea) attracted so much attention from major world powers for so long? How and when did the United States become a dominant actor in this area?<\/li>\n<li>How did the Spanish penetration of Central America differ from the conquest of Mexico? What implications did this have?<\/li>\n<li>What are the defining features of \u201cplantation societies\u201d? How do Central American societies compare with late-nineteenth-century Mexico?<\/li>\n<li>What have been the long-term consequences of the construction of the Panama Canal?\u00a0 What if an inter-oceanic waterway had been built in Nicaragua instead?<\/li>\n<li>What explains the emergence of armed guerrilla movements in El Salvador and Nicaragua? Why were the revolutionaries able to take power in Nicaragua, but not in El Salvador?<\/li>\n<li>Has Central America finally embarked on a period of peace?\u00a0 Why and to what extent?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why has the Gulf of Mexico (plus the Caribbean Sea) attracted so much attention from major world powers for so long? How and when did the United States become a dominant actor in this area? How did the Spanish penetration &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/chapters\/chapter-5-central-america\/chapter-4-discussion-questions-central-america-and-the-caribbean\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"parent":197,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2883","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2883\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}