Chapt. 10 WG final
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- subsistence farming
- farmers who grow enough crops to meet their family's needs
- latifundio
- huge commercial farms owned by individuals or by farming companies
- Sierra Madres
- 2 ranges - Occidental & Oriental
- tourism
- important economic activity in mexico
- cash crop
- farm crops grown for sale & profit
- sinkhole
- roof of cavern collapses
- Aztecs
- society of warriors
- migrant worker
- travel from place - place where extra workers are needed
- central plateau
- Mexico's most important & populous region
- hacienda
- large spanish owned estates of land
- land redistribution
- estates were divided among landless peasants
- Yucatan peninsula
- generally flat -> porus limestone
- ejido
- farmland owned collectively by members of a rural community
- irrigation
- artifical watering of farmladn by storing & distributing water drawn from rivers