Latin America 10
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| Spanish conquest | when Cortes landed on the coast of Mexico
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| Tenochtitlan | the capital of the Aztec's
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| Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) | introduced democracy to Mexico
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| mestizo | people of mixed Spanish and Native American heritage
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| Maquiladoras | factories in Mexico that assemble imported materials into finished products that are then exported
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| NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) | between Mexico, Canada, and the US. Designed to create jobs
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| cultural hearth | a place from which important ideas spread
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| United Provinces of Central America | the name for central america after it got its independence from Mexico
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| Panama Canal | cuts through the land bridge and connects the Atlantic and Pacific ocean, good for trade
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| Calypso | music of Africa, Spain, and Caribbean
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| Reggae | music developed in Jamaica
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| informal economy | jobs such as street vending, shining shoes etc
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| Inca | descendants of people who may have crossed a land bridge from Siberia to Alaska and eventually found their way to South America, built their civilization in the Andes
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| quechua | language of the Inca
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| Treaty of Tordesillas | agreement to divide South America, Portugal gained Brazil
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| Carnival | most colorful feast day in Brazil
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| samba | Brazilian dance with African influences
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| Capoeria | a martial art and dance developed in Brazil
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