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Chap. 9, 17 and 21
Mexico, North Africa and South Africa
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| indigenous | people who are an area's first inhabitants |
| Native Americans | first people living in what is now modern day Mexico |
| Maya | Native Americans who lived in the Yucatan Peninsula |
| mestizo | marriage or blending of Native Americans and Europeans |
| urbanization | migration of people from the countryside to the cities |
| primate city | an urban area that dominates its couuntry's economy, culture and poltiical affaris |
| Sahara | largest desert in the world |
| oasis | a place in the desert where underground water surfaces |
| Pastoralism | the raising and grazing of livestock |
| cereals | food grains such as barley, oats and wheat |
| Lesotho | a small country completely surrounded by the country of South Africa |
| Johannesburg | owes its origins and growth to gold mining |
| Angola | Portuguese controlled this region throughout the 1500s |
| coup d etat | an overthrow of the government |
| universal suffrage | voting rights for all adult citizens |
| apartheid | a political system based on the separation of the races |
| megacities | cities with more than 10 million people |
| glyphs | picture writings carved in stone |
| chinampas | floating islands made from large rafts |
| viceroys | roally appointed officials by the Spanish government |
| mosaics | pictures or designs made with colored stone or tile |
| Hispaniola | first European settlement founded in 1493 |
| dialects | forms of a language unique to a particular place or group |
| patois | dialects that blend indigenous, European, African and Asia languages |
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