Geo Ch 10,11,12 Terms for Test
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- landlocked
- having no coast on the ocean
- plaza
- open space in towns in Mexico and other Spanish-speaking countries, often in front of a church
- ecotourism
- type of tourism focusing on guided travel through natural areas
- sinkhole
- steep-sided depressions that form when the roof of a cave collapses
- mestizo
- people of mixed European and American Indian ancestry
- voodoo
- Haitian version of traditional African religious beliefs that are blended with elements of Christianity
- manioc
- tropical plant with starchy roots
- conquistadors
- Spanish conquerors of foreign lands during the colonial era
- mulatto
- people of both African and European ancestry
- Inca
- founders of South Ameria's greatest early civilization
- commonwealth
- self-governing territory associated with another country
- mangrove
- type of tree with roots that grow in saltwater
- minifundia
- samll South Amarican farms created when large colonial estates were broken up
- cash crops
- crops grown for sale in a market
- cacao
- type of tree from which we get cocoa beans
- isthmus
- narrow strip of land wht water on either side connecting two larger land areas
- haciendas
- large Spanish colonial estates usually owned by wealthy families but worked by many peasants
- dictator
- a leader who rules with alomost absolute authority
- Creole
- a language blending African, European, or indigenous Caribbean languages
- coup
- a change of gobernment caused by a group taking control by force
- indigenous
- native to an area