Mexico
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- Chinampas
- Aztec floating gardens
- Epidemics
- Widespread ,outbreak
- Aztec
- Metalworking, pottery, weaving, calendars, math, central America
- Six Regions of Mexico
- Central, Yucatan, North, South, Greater, Oil
- Climates of Mexico
- Dry, mild, mountinay tropical
- Mesoamerica
- Middle Mexico
- 1821(year Mexico won independence from Spain)
- Mexico won independence
- Mount Orizaba
- highest peak in Mexico, 18,700 feet
- New Spain
- Named territory, Hernan Cortes
- Maya
- Completed writing system lived in south Mexico, Yucatan Peninsula
- Obsidain
- glass
- Pok-a-tok
- Mayan game used huge boulders
- Ejidos
- Land owned/ worked by Mexican Indians
- NAFTA
- North American Free Trade Agreement
- Olmec
- Earliest known civilization in Mexico
- Moctezuma
- Aztec ruler
- Glyphs
- Written characters
- Conquistadores
- Spanish conquerors
- Maquiladoras
- Foreign owned factories
- Hernan Cortes
- Spanish explorer
- Tenochtitlan
- Aztec capital, now Mexico city
- Haciendas
- Large areas of farmland