Mexico Test Review
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- Mount Orizaba
- Highest peak in Mexico.
- Ejidos
- Farmland that the Spainards worked on.
- Epidemic
- A widespread outbreak.
- Natural Resources of Mexico
- Petroliem, Oil
- Aztec
- Lived in Central Mexico. Made the first calender.
- Moctezuma II
- Aztec ruler
- Obsidian
- A glass formed from lava. Made into Mayan knives.
- Chinampas
- The name the Aztecs gave to raised fields on which they grew crops.
- Six Regions of Mexico
- 1. Greater Interior (Most Developed + Crowded) 2. Central Interior (Small towns are common) 3. Oil Cost (Forests and costal planes) 4.Southern Mexico (Poorest Region) 5. Northern Mexico (Maquiladoras) 6. The Yucatan (Slash-and-burn-agriculture).
- Maquiladoras
- Foreign owned companies located on the Mexican and U.S. borders.
- 1821
- The year Mexico won independence from Spain
- Haciendas
- Huge expanses of farmlands, owned by favored people.
- Pok-a-tok
- A Mayan ball game.
- Conquistadores
- Spanish conquerors during the colonization of the Americas
- Hernan Cortes
- Conqured the Aztecs
- Olmec
- The earliest known developed civilazation in Mexico. Located along the Golf of Mexico.
- Maya
- Lived in what is today Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. Sacrificed themselves to the Mayan Gods.
- NAFTA
- ( North American Free Trade Agreement) An easier way of trade between Mexico, Canada and the U.S.
- New Spain
- Founded by Cortes in 1521
- Mesoamerica
- Mexico and Central America
- Climates of Mexico
- Desert, Steppe, Savana, Humid Tropical
- Tenochtitlan
- The Capital city of Teotihuacan.
- Glyphs
- Written characterswritten by the Maya.