Mexico Chapter 7-8 Test
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- Mt Orizaba
- the highest peak
- Six Regions of Mexico
- Greater Mexico City, Central Interior, Southern Mexico, Northern Mexico, The Yucatan Peninsula
- Glyphs
- written characters representing both objects and sounds
- Tenochtitlan
- City founded by the Aztec
- Haciendas
- huge expanses of farmland
- Pok-a-tok
- a ball game created by the Maya people
- 1821
- year Mexico won independence from Spain
- Epidemic
- a widespread outbreak of disease
- New Spain
- the conquered Aztec land
- Chinampas
- raised fields
- Obsidian
- a form of natural glass that forms when lava cools quickly
- Moctezuma II
- the Aztec ruler who greeted the Spanish conquistadores
- Maquiladoras
- factories along the border
- Mesoamerica
- the culture area including Mexico and much of Central America
- NAFTA
- North American Free Trade Agreement