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Wg CH.9
Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Cordillera | mountain ranges that run side by side |
cash crop | a product sold for export |
mestizos | people that have mixed European and Native American backgrounds |
campensinos | Colombian farmers |
Navigable | a body of water is wide and deep enough to allow ships to travel in it |
Foothills | the low hills at the base of the mountain range |
Empire | group of lands under one ruler stretched more than 2,500 miles along the Andes |
land locked | a country that has no sea or ocean |
Altiplano | large highland plateau |
Sodium nitrate | a mineral used in fertilizer and explosives |