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Term | Definition |
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conquistador | name for the Spanish explores who claimed land in Americas |
cultural convergence | the contact and interaction of one culture |
caudillo | a Latin american military dictator |
pampas | a grassland region in Argentina and Uruguay |
cay | a small island, low island or coral reef |
coral | the rock like skeletons of tiny sea animals |
tropical storm | a storm that originates over a tropical ocean |
El Nino | a warm ocean current off south america's |
canopy | the uppermost layer of a forest where tree branches |
mestizo | a person of mixed European and native american |
mulatto | a person of mixed African and European |
hacienda | a large Spanish owned estate in the Americas |
land redistribution | a policy by which land is taken |
Ejido | farmland owned collectively by members |
subsistence farming | farming that provides only enough for a family |
latifundio | a large commercial farm owned by privet people |
cash crop | a farm crop grown for sale and profit |
migrant worker | a worker who travels from place to place |
NAFTA | North american free trade agreement |
quadrilateral | a factory in mexico along the united states |
plateau | an area of high flat land |
peninsula | a strip of land that juts out into a ocean |
irrigation | the watering of farming with water drawn from rivers |
sinkhole | a hole formed when limestone is dissolved |
command economy | an economic system that is controlled by a single central government |
GDP per capita | the total value of goods and services produced in a country in a year |
market economy | an economic system in which decisions about production price or determine by supply |
traditional economy |