Vocabulary
This refers to the natives of an area who have been conquered or dominated by others who came later.
What is indigenous peoples?
Increased urbanization is a major effect of this in Mexico.
What is rural decline?
Tenements, estates, and “slums” are all terms used to describe housing in this city.
What is Mexico City?
This adaptation to modern life may be seen in the homes of the Maya.
What is electricity?
The ancient Maya are well known for the accuracy of this system.
What is the calendar?
Geographers call this the unequal distribution of wealth and resources in a specific geographic area.
What is spatial inequality?
This important pull factor draws families from farms in rural Mexico to urban life in Mexico City.
What is economic opportunity?
The vast majority of Mexico City’s population belong to this economic group.
Who are the “have–nots”?
Maya children learn traditional skills like farming and weaving from these people.
Who are their parents?
The most common crops for the Maya to grow include squash, beans, and this vegetable.
What is corn?
What is urbanization?
Standard of living is measured by social scientists using this index.
What is the Human Development Index (HDI)?
Mexico City is located on the site of the capital city of this Mesoamerican civilization.
Who are the Aztec (Mexica)?
Maya healers believe that illnesses have two causes: physical and this.
What is spiritual?
The current religion of the Maya people is a mixture of these two aspects.
What are Catholicism and natural gods/spirits?
This is farming carried out mainly to provide food for farm families, with little surplus.
What is subsistence farming?
Ejidos are communal types of these found in Mexico.
What are farms?
Illness, smog, poverty, and this are all negative impacts of urbanization in Mexico City.
What is crime?
Most farming in Guatemala takes place on these.
What are commerical farms?
The Maya today mostly live in the highlands of Guatemala and this area of Mexico.
What is the Yucatan Peninsula?
This is the overall level of comfort and wellbeing of a group or country.
What is standard of living?
This year is the last time the Mexican population was more rural than urban.
What is 1950?
As it has grown over time, Mexico City has seen a decrease in this characteristic.
What is the average family size?
Maya judges may have offenders pay for their crimes using this method rather than jail time.
What is restitution?
In Guatemala, Maya religious brotherhoods are called this.
What are confradias?