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WGh Middle America

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Primate city (and an example)   show
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show The North American Free Trade Association. The free-trade area launched in 1994 involving the United States, Canada, and Mexico.  
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Maquilladoras   show
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Land bridge   show
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show A set of islands grouped closely together, usually elongated into a chain.  
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show The most frequent pathway followed by tropical storms and hurricanes over the past 150 years in their generally westward movement across the Caribbean Basin.  
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Altitudinal Zonation   show
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Tropical deforestation   show
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Culture hearth   show
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Mestizo   show
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show Literally, a large estate in a Spanish-speaking country. Sometimes equated with the plantation, but there are important differences between these two types of agricultural enterprise.  
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Plantation   show
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Small-island developing economies   show
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Acculturation   show
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show Cultural borrowing and two-way exchanges that occur when different cultures of approximately equal complexity and technological level come into close contact.  
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show Mexican farmland redistributed to peasant communities after the Revolution of 1910-1917. The government holds title to the land, but user rights are parceled out to village communities and then to individuals to for cultivation.  
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Remittances   show
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show Term referring to financial havens for foreign companies and individuals, who channel their earnings to accounts in such country (usually an "offshore" island-state) to avoid paying taxes in their home countries.  
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show In a layered or stratified society, the population is divided into a hierarchy of social classes. In an industrialized society, the working class is at the lower end; elites that posses capital and control that means of production are at the upper level.  
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show A person of mixed African (black) and European (white) ancestry.  
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