Mexico
A port and fashionable resort city on the Pacific coast of southern Mexico
What is Acapulco?
Ancient Mesoamerican civilization that thrived from about A. D. 300 to A. D. 900.
Who are the Maya?
A cluster if coral islands
What are the Bahamas?
unskilled laborers, used as slaves
Who were the peones
A region connecting two land masses
What is a land bridge/isthmus?
desert in south Arizona and Mexico
What is the Sonoran Desert?
A ship canal 40 miles long across the Isthmus of Panama built by the United States (1904-1914)
What is the Panama Canal?
Only communist country in the Western Hemisphere
What is Cuba?
A person of mixed Native American and European ancestry
Who are mestizos?
A strange mixture of West African spirit worship, black magic, and Roman Catholicism
What is voodoo?
In the 1300's they settled in the valley of Mexico and practiced human sacrifices
Who were the Aztecs?
Economy was introduced to Central America by the British
What is plantation economy?
Haiti and Dominican Republic make up this island
What is Hispaniola?
People of mixed African and European descent
Who are mulattoes?
What is Copper Canyon?
A large estate or ranch; the main house of such a ranch
What is a hacienda?
Banana Republic
What is Honduras?
Became a commonwealth of the U.S. in 1951
What is Puerto Rico?
Spaniards born in the colonies
Who are the peninsulares?
Mexican cowboy
Who is a vaquero?
The largest city in North America
What is Mexico City?
Least populated Central American country
What is Belize
Notorious haven for pirates
What is Jamaica?
Spanish governor in Mexico
Who is a viceroy?
Mexican town square
What is a plaza?