Vocab terms
Mexico's most popular sport
soccer
band that plays traditional Mexican music
mariachi
famous celebration held in Rio de Janeiro before Lent
Carnival
Guatemalans who speak Spanish and practice European ways
ladinos
Mexico, Canada, and the US signed this trage agreement in 1992
NAFTA
cowhands who developed tools for ranching
vaqueros
language that is a mixture of English and French
Creole
trees that are a source of tannin
quebrachos
This is what much of Central America's fertile soil came from
large, high, dry plateau in the Andes
altiplano
hollow figure filled with toys and candy
pinata
music created by enslaved Africans in Trnindad
calypso
Grassy plains found in the southern part of Venezuela
llanos
The farm economy of many West Indie's islands is based on only one of these
crop
Coffee is Colombia's most important what
cash crop
thin, flat, cornmeal bread
percentage of people who can read and write
literacy
Venezuela is now a democracy, but for most of the 1800s & 1900s it was ruled by these
caudillos
They called Mexico the "land of the shaking Earth"
Aztec
a vast treeless area that is home to Argentina's beef cattle industry
Pampas
Mexico's form of government
federal republic
substance used in making chewing gum
chicle
Amazon rain forests are facing danger because of this
deforestation
Causes serious air pollution in Mexico City
smog
estancia