Olmec, Maya, & Aztec
This is the kind of agriculture practiced by the Olmec.
What is slash and burn agriculture?
This wiped out as much as 90% of the native population after Spanish colonization.
What is disease?
Mexicans were inspired by Enlightenment ideas like individual freedoms and gained their independence from Spain in this year.
What is 1821?
These are the two main indigenous groups of the Caribbean.
Who are the Arawak and the Carib?
This is a movement of people from their homeland to other places.
What is diaspora?
The Aztec used these to farm on the surface of Lake Texcoco.
What are chinampas (artificial islands)?
These people, born in Spain, were at the top of Spanish colonial society.
What are peninsulares?
What is the United States?
These European countries colonized the islands of the Lesser Antilles, because the Spanish weren't interested in them.
What are England, France, the Netherlands?
Mexico has this type of government system.
What is a presidential democracy?
This is the major contribution of the Zapotec to history.
What is possibly the first writing system in the Americas?
These farming plantations used forced labor to produce goods for the Spanish Empire.
What are encomiendas?
This country's independence movement is the most successful slave revolt in history.
What is Haiti?
Cuba is the only nation in the Caribbean with this type of government.
What is communist?
This is often reflected in Mexican murals.
What is the country's history?
Both the Maya and Aztec were known to have practiced this in their religious ceremonies, often with prisoners of war.
What is human sacrifice?
The movement of goods, ideas, plants, and animals between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres was known as this.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This was the first year since its revolution that Mexico held free and fair democratic elections.
What is 2000?
These natural disasters tend to be the most destructive in the Caribbean.
What are hurricanes, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions?
These things generally lead to economic growth.
What are capital investment, investment in human capital, entrepreneurship, and foreign investment?
This is one major accomplishment of the Maya that the Aztec did not accomplish.
What is a complex writing system?
These people had mixed Spanish and indigenous ancestry.
What are mestizos?
Although his rule didn't last long, a French emperor ruled Mexico beginning in this year.
What is 1861?
Caribbean cultures tend to reflect a blending of indigenous, African, and European cultures. This is the term for a blended language.
What is a creole?
This term refers to the practice of countries producing the things they are best at producing.
What is specialization?