Mexico Vocabulary
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- NAFTA
- An orginization made to help Mexico's ecomony including Canada and the U.S.
- Mount Orizba
- Highest peak in Mexico.
- Olmec
- Earliest known civilization.
- Glyphs
- Writen characters representing objects and sounds.
- Ejidos
- Groups of workers in the Maya civilization.
- Pacal
- Mayan ruler.
- Epidemic
- Widspread outbreak.
- Tenochtilan
- Aztec city.
- Pok-a-tok
- Mayan ball game.
- Mesoamerica
- Mexico+Central America.
- Teotihuacan
- Mayan city.
- Moctezuma II
- Aztec ruler.
- New Spain
- Area where the Spanish settled after they conquered the Aztec.
- Haciendas
- Huge expanses of farmland.
- Chinampas
- Floating gardens.
- Hernan Cortez
- Aztec conqueror
- 1821
- The year Mexico won its independence from Spain.
- Yukatan Peninsula
- Penninsula in southeastern Mexico.
- Obsidian
- Natural glass that forms when lava cools quickly.
- Conquistadores
- Conqerors