GEO
People of mixed Spanish and Native American heritage
What is mestizo population?
Political party that arose in Mexico in 1929 that helped maintain much of the stability in the 20th centruy
What is the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)?
Mexicans are moving to cities for this
What are job opportunities?
Music developed in Jamaica in the 1960s and the songs deal with social problems and religion
What is reggae music?
Type of economy that includes jobs such as street vending, shining shoes, or playing music on the street
What is informal economy
Landed on the coast of Mexico in 1519
Who is Hernando Cortez
The most important part of Mexico's economy today
What is manufacturing?
Where the African influence in the Caribbean came from
What are Africans brought by slave traders to replace Taino natives?
Language of the Inca that was overshadowed by Spanish as the settlers became the dominant culture
What is Quechua
societies with different cultures living near each other, but keeping their seperate identities
what is a cultural mosaic
Who are the Native Americans and settlers from Spain?
Mexico was built on the top of the ruins of this culture
What is Aztec?
Major trade route that connects the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean
What is the Panama Canal
Popular music in South America
What is popular, fork, street, and classical
Name two for credit...
Country that is considered South Ameria's greatest economic success story
What is Chile
Place where Cortes and his men marched into the interior of Mexico which is today the site of Mexico City
What is Tenochitlan?
NAFTA stands for this
What is North American Free Trade Agreement?
Reason what a high literacy rate is important to a country
What is better educated means better jobs
Primary language and religion of Brazil
What are Catholic and Portugese
Portugal's source of wealth in Brazil
What is sugar
The four subregions of Latin America
What are Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, Spanish speaking South America, and Brazil
Purpose of NAFTA
What is break down economic barriers, create jobs, bring prosperity?
What is Rio de Janeiro
Factories in Mexico often located along the U.S. border that assemble imported materials for export
What are maquiladoras
The two parts of the economy that provide most of the income in Central America and the Caribbean
what are agriculture and tourism