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| Conquistador | Name for the Spanish explorers who claimed land in the Americas for Spain
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| Cultural convergence | The contact and interaction of one culture with another
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| Caudillos | A Latin American military dictator
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| Pampas | A grasslands region in Argentina and Uruguay
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| Cay | A small, low island or coral reef
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| Coral | The rocklike skeletons of tiny sea animals
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| Tropical storm | A storm with winds of at least 39 miles (63 km) per hour
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| Hurricane | A destructive tropical storm that forms over the Atlantic Ocean, usally in late summer and early fall, with winds of at least 74 miles (119 km) per hour
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| El Nino | A warm ocean current off South Americas northwestern coast that influences global weather patterns
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| Canopy | The uppermost layer of a forest where tree branches meet
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| Mestizo | A person of mixed European and Native American heritage
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| Mulatto | A person of mixed African and European ancestry
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| Plateau | An area of high, flat land
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| Peninsula | A strip of land that juts out into an acean
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| Irragation | The watering of farmland with water drawn from reservoirs or rivers
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| Sinkhole | A hole formed with limestone is dissolved, causing the land above to collapse
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| Hacienda | A large Spanish-owned estate in the Americas, often run as a farm or a cattle ranch
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| Land redistribution | A policy by which land is taken from those who one large amounts and redistributed to those who have little or none
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| Ejido | Farmland owned collectively by members of a rural community
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| Subsistence farming | Farming that provides only enough for the needs of a family or a village
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| Latifundio | A large commercial farm owned by a private individual or a farming company
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| Cash crop | A farm crop grown for sale and profit
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| Migrant worker | A worker who travels from place to place, working where extra help is needed to cultivate or harvest crops
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| NAFTA | Norht American Free Trade Agreement, which phased out trade barriers among the Unites States, Canada, and Mexico
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| Maquiladora | A factory in Mexico, along the United States border, that assembles goods for export
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| Market economy | An economic system in which decisions about production, price, and other economic factors are determined by the law of supply and demand
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| GDP per capita | The total value of goods and services produced within a country in a year, divided by the country's total population
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| Command economy | An economic system that is controlled by a single central government
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| Traditional economy | An economic system in which families produce goods and services for their own use, with little surplus and exchange goods; also known as a subsistence economy
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