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WorGeo Latin America
Terms for Latin America
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Columbian Exchange | widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, & ideas between the Americas, West Africa, & the Old World in the 1600s |
| Mangrove | a tree or shrub that grows in chiefly tropical coastal swamps, including Central America, that are flooded at high tide |
| Indigenous | produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environment |
| Mulattoes | commonly refers to a mixed-race ancestry that includes white European & black African roots. Across Latin America, commonly used to describe people of mixed-race background |
| Cacao | seeds from a small tropical American evergreen tree, from which cocoa, cocoa butter, and chocolate are made |
| Ecotourism | directed toward exotic, often threatened, natural environments, intended to support conservation efforts and observe wildlife |
| Santeria | a Cuban religious cult developed from the beliefs and customs of the Yoruba people and incorporating some elements of the Catholic religion |
| Commonwealth | an independent country or community, especially a democratic republic |
| Voodoo | a black religious cult practiced in the Caribbean and the southern United States characterized by sorcery and spirit possession |
| Chiampa | is a technique used in Mesoamerican agriculture which relied on small, rectangular areas of fertile arable land to grow crops on the shallow lake beds in valleys |
| Black Death | a severe epidemic of plague and especially bubonic plague in the 14th century |
| Olmec | prehistoric people inhabiting the coast of Veracruz and western Tabasco on the Gulf of Mexico who established what was probably the first Meso-American civilization |
| Aztec | indigenous people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century. |
| Maya | indigenous people of Mexico & Central America who have continuously inhabited the lands comprising modern-day Yucatan in Mexico |
| Hispaniola | island in the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean Sea, divided into the countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic |
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