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Vocab List #10
Latin America History and Current Events
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Hacienda | Spanish agricultural plantations throughout Latin America during the colonial period |
| Columbian Exchange | The movement of goods, ideas, diseases and cultures between Europe (Old World) and its colonies in North and South America (New World) during the European Age of Exploration. |
| Transatlantic Slave Trade | the enslavement and forced transportation of 12-15 million black Africans to the Americas between the 15th and 19th centuries |
| Triangular Trade | a 3-way system of exchange of slaves, cash crops, and manufactured goods between West Africa, Caribbean or American colonies, and Europe from the late 16th to early 19th centuries. |
| Middle Passage | the second stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade. |
| Indigenous | native to a region |
| Mestizo | a person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry, children of mixed race - Spanish & Indigenous people |
| Mulatto | a person of mixed white and black ancestry, especially a person with one white and one black parent |
| Communism | political and economic system in which private ownership is largely forbidden and the government owns all property and makes all economic decisions |
| Coup- | sudden violent overthrow of a government often by the military. |
| Fidel Castro | Cuban revolutionary who overthrew a corrupt government in 1959 but soon became a Communist dictator. |
| Raul Castro | Fidel Castro’s brother; Cuban President Raul Castro succeeded Fidel Castro in 2008. Under Fidel, Raul was the head of Cuba’s armed forces and served as defense minister. |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | 1962 Cold War event wherein the Soviet Union, with the agreement of the Castro regime, placed intermediate and medium-range ballistic missiles on the island of Cuba which were capable of striking the United States |
| Embargo | prohibition of trade with a certain country |
| Narco-terrorism | violent extremism associated with the illegal drug trade |
| Cartel | a group which dominates the trade of a specific product or service |
| Trafficking | the illegal smuggling of people or products |
| Emigrate | to relocate to a new country for the purpose of employment |
| Naturalization | the process by which a citizen of one country may become a legal citizen of another country |
| Rural | an area that is largely countryside; this is in contrast to an urban (i.e., city) area |
| Urban | an area that is largely city; this is in contrast to an rural (i.e. countryside) area |
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