 | Term | Definition |
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Mexico |
A country below U.S.A |
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Haciendas |
Huge farmlands granted by the Spanish monarch to favored people in Spain's colonies |
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Epidemic |
Widespread outbreak, often referring to a diease |
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Glyphs |
Written characters representing objects and sounds |
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Mesoamerica |
Mexico and Central America |
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Moctezuma the 2nd |
The Aztec ruler |
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Hernan Cortes |
Spanish explorer |
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1821 |
year Mexico won independence from Spain |
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Obsidian |
Natural glass |
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Mount Orizaba |
The highest peak |
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Chinampas |
Raised fields on ehich the aztec grew crops |
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New Spain |
The territory in which the axtec and other indian people used to live on |
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Tenochtitlan |
Where the aztec empire was |
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Conquistadores |
Spanish conquerors during the era of colonization in the Americas |
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NAFTA |
North America Free Trade Agreement, has made trade easier |
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Maquiladoras |
Foriegn-owned factories located along Mexico's nothern border with the U.S.A |
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Olmec |
Earliest known people in Mexico |
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Maya |
Tribe before the Aztec, they lived in yucatan peninsula, made great ruins and a complete writing system |
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Aztec |
Trribe from the north, made chinampas great armies, lived in central mexico |
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Greater Mexico City |
Most developed and populated city or region |
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Central Interior |
Lies north of the capital and has lots of farms |
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Oil Coast |
Forested coastal plains |
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Southern Mexico |
Country poorest region |
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Northern Mexico |
Most properous and modern areas |
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The Yucatan |
Sparsley populated and is mostly farmland |
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Ejidos |
Lands owned and worked by groups of Mexican Indians |
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Climates of Mexico |
The climate varies a lot |
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Natural Resources of Mexico |
Oil, copper, gold, silver,zinc, etc. |
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