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