Dani Lyn's Mex Test
The CORRECT vocab words for a typical sixth grade Mexico test, with words you can actually RELATE to and UNDERSTAND!!!:)
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- Moctezuma II
- An Aztec ruler.
- Mesoamerica
- The land which contains Mexico and Central America.
- Conquistadors
- Spanish warriors ,greeted by Moctezuma II
- 1821
- The year Mexico won independence from Spain.
- Hernan Cortes
- A Spanish explorer who lived in the 1500's.
- Natural Resources of Mexico
- coffee(beans), bananas, sugarcane, cotton.
- Epidemic
- A widespread outbreak, often referring to a disease or other horrid outcome.
- Haciendas
- A big farmland-like thing ,given, or granted by the Spanish monarch to favored people in Spain's colonies.
- Mount Orizaba
- The highest peak in Mexico, as it rises tol 18,700 feet(5,700 m)
- New Spain
- a territory in southcentral Mexico
- Aztec
- soldiers conquered them, located in Mexico
- Ejidos
- lands owned by Indian communities
- Maya
- made picture writing,or glyphs,located south of Mexico
- Pok-a-Tok
- An ancient ball game played by the Mayas.
- NAFTA
- North American Free Trade Agreement-helped trade between Mexico,United States,and Canada.
- Climates of Mexico
- hot , sunny,steppe?
- Chinampas
- The name the aztecs gave to raised fields where they grew crops.
- Glyphs
- A form of picture writing representing objects and sounds.
- Maquiladoras
- Large companies in Mexico, but owned by the United States.
- Obsidian
- A kind of natural glass that forms when volcanic lava cools quickly.
- Tenochtitlan
- a city in southcentral Mexico
- Olmec
- First civilation,located along the Gulf of Mexico's southern coast,carved huge heads of stone