Latin American Vocab
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| show | Mexican Plateau
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| show | Andes
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| show | Cordilleras
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| Spanish for "high plain", a region in Peru and Bolivia encircled by the Andes peaks | show 🗑
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| Sparsely populated plateau of forests and grasslands, that spreads across Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru | show 🗑
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| show | Brazilian Highlands
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| show | Escarpment
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| show | Llanos
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| Grassy, treeless plains of southern South America (Argentina and Uruguay) | show 🗑
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| show | Amazon River
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| Electrical energy generated by falling water. | show 🗑
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| "River of the Silver" which flows into the Atlantic Ocean | show 🗑
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| show | Rio Grande
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| Located in the Andes of Bolivia and Peru, it is the world's highest navigable lake. | show 🗑
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| show | Tierra helada
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| Spanish term for "cold land"; the highest altitude zone of Latin American highlands climates | show 🗑
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| Spanish term for "temperate land"; the middle-altitude zone of Latin American highlands climates | show 🗑
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| show | Tierra caliente
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| Blanketed by the world's largest expanse of tropical rain forests. World's wettest tropical plain. | show 🗑
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| Top layer of a rain forest, where the tops of tall trees form a continuous layer of leaves | show 🗑
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| Coastal desert that is so arid that in some places no rainfall has ever been recorded | show 🗑
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| show | Indigenous
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| The Maya's thrived here | show 🗑
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| show | Mestizo
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| The movement of people from rural areas to cities | show 🗑
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| Mexico's largest megacity with a population of more than 19 million people. A primate city. The primary destination for most people who move within Mexico | show 🗑
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| A city with more than ten million people | show 🗑
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| A city that dominates a country's economic, culture, and goverment, and in which population is concentrated; usually the capital | show 🗑
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| Picture writing carved in stone | show 🗑
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| The Aztec civilizations capital in Central Mexico, it was built on an island in a large lake | show 🗑
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| show | Chinampas
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| Spanish term for "conqueror" referring to soldiers who conquered Native Americans in Latin America | show 🗑
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| Representative of the Spanish monarch appointed to enforce laws in colonial Latin America | show 🗑
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| show | Caudillo
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| show | Syncretism
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| show | Malnutrition
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| Wall Painting | show 🗑
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| show | Mosaics
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| Household made up of several generations of family members | show 🗑
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| The island where the first permanent European settlement was founded in 1493 | show 🗑
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| show | Columbian Exchange
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| Allows ships to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans without sailing around the sourthern tip of South America. Human-made | show 🗑
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| A soldier born to enslaved parents, who led a revolt of enslaved Africans in Haiti | show 🗑
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| A revolution in 1959 set up a communist state in Cuba under this man | show 🗑
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| Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica | show 🗑
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| show | Dialects
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| Dialect that blend elements of indigenous, European, African, and Asian languages | show 🗑
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| show | Matriarchal
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| the former capital of Brazil, switched in 1960 in order to draw people away from the densely populated coast | show 🗑
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| show | Brasilia
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| show | Brain Drain
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| show | Favelas
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| location of where four quarters met, and where the Inca's built their capital | show 🗑
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| show | Tawantinsuyu
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| show | Quipu
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| A conquistador who sailed for Peru from the Spanish territory of Panama | show 🗑
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