Ch 6. Review- Mexico Flashcards
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Foreign owned factories along the Northern Mexican border.
Maquiladoras
This is a steep sided depression formed when the roof of a cave collapses.
Sink-hole
When people from the Spanish church come to covert the indigenous to Catholicism.
Missions
Mixture of chemicals, smoke, and fog
Smog
Used to be an island founded by the Aztec, and is now Mexico City.
Tenochtitlan
System in which a central power controls a number of territories
Empire
A widespread outbreak
Epidemic
Huge farmlands granted by e Spanish monarch to favored people.
Haciendas
Bodies signal that it needs more food.
Hunger
Rise in prices that occurs when currency loses its buying power.
Inflation
When forests are cut and burned to clear land for planting.
Slash and burn agriculture
Raised field on which Aztecs grew crops
Chinampas
Lands owned and worked on Mexican Indians
Ejidos
People of mixed European and African ancestry
Mulattos
People of mixed European and American Indian ancestry.
Mestizos
Produced primarily to sell rather than for the farmer to eat.
Cash Crops
The measure of food deprivation
Undernourishment
They domesticated the earliest form of corn
Mesoamerica early cultures
Mexico gain independence due to what?
Revolt started by a catholic priest
What were two advantages of Hernan Cortez on his conquest against the Aztecs?
Muskets an horses
Spanish came and brought what epidemic over, killing a large number of Indians?
Small pox
This group of people created a detailed calendar.
Maya
This group was taken over by the Spanish.
Aztec
This group of people seemed to abandon all of their cities after the collapse of their civilization
Maya