World Geography H: Chapter 2 Vocab: The Middle American Realm
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| show | Aboriginal or native; an example would be the pre-Colombian inhabitants of the Americas
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| show | General term for a linear zone that parallels a political boundary. The most dynamic of these areas, such as those lining the US-Mexico border, are marked by significant cultural and economic interaction across the boundary that separates them
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| show | The term given to modern industrial plants in Mexico’s US border zone. These foreign-owned factories assemble imported components
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| show | A set of islands grouped closely together, usually elongated into a chain.
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| show | The clearing and destruction of tropical rainforests in order to make way for expanding settlement frontiers and the exploitations of new economic opportunities.
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| show | A large estate in a Spanish-speaking country. Sometimes equated with the plantation, but there are important differences between these two types of agricultural enterprise.
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| show | A large estate owned by an individual, family, or corporation and organized to produce a cash crop. Almost all plantations were established within the tropics. In recent decades, many have been divided into smaller holdings.
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| show | The additional disadvantages faced by lower-income island-states because of their small territorial size and populations as well as overland inaccessibility. Limited resources require expensive importing of many goods ad services
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| show | Cultural borrowing and two-way exchanges that occur when different cultures of approximately equal complexity and technological level come into close contact.
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| show | Mexican farmlands redistributed to peasant communities after the Revolution of 1910-1917. The government holds title to the land, but user rights are parceled out to village communities and then to individuals for cultivation.
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| show | Term referring to financial havens for foreign companies and individuals, who channel their earnings to accounts in such a country (usually an "offshore" island-state) to avoid paying taxes in their home countries.
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| show | Money earned by emigrants that is sent back to family and friends in their home country, mostly in cash; forms an important part of the economy in poorer countries.
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| show | In a stratified society, the population is divided into a hierarchy of social classes. In an industrialized society, the working class is at the lower end; elites that possess capital and control the means of production are at the upper level.
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| show | A person of mixed African (black) and European (white) ancestry.
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