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