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Crull's L.A. Vocab
Latin America Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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interdependent | relying upon one another |
conquistador | Spanish soldier-explorer |
aqueduct | channel than moves water over a long distance |
maize | corn |
mestizo | a person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry |
criollos | colonial Mexican of Spanish descent who was born in Mexico |
peninsulares | colonial Mexican who came to Mexico from Spain |
deforestation | the loss of forest cover in a region that results from the trees in a forest being destroyed faster than they can grow back |
isthmus | strip of land with water on both sides, which connects two larger bodies of land |
encomienda | legal system to control Native Americans in Spains's American colonies |
hacienda | huge farm or ranch in Spain's America colonies |
Llanos | lowland plains in Colombia & Venezuela |
terraced farming | sculpting the hillsides into different levels for crops |
caudillo | chief or dictator |
paramilitary | armed forces that are unauthorized by the government |
nationalize | when the government takes over private businesses |
insurgent | rebel |
guerillas | soldiers who make surprise raids on the enemy |
El Nino | the warming of ocean water along the west coast of Peru that affects climate in the Americas |
vertical climate zones | climate zones that change according to elevation |
mestizo | children of mixed race - Spanish & Indigenous people |
land reform | redistributing land to others, usually to lower income people |