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Family
100
The ingenious people such as the Mayans, thrived in these areas.
What is the Yucatan Peninsula.
100
Pictures writings carved in stone, on templates to honor their gods and record history.
What is glyphs?
100
The official language of Mexico.
What is Spanish?
100
Great grandparents, grandparents, aunts,uncles, and cousins as well as parents and children.
What is an extended family?
200
The majority of these groups lived in the southern part of the Mexican Plateau.
What is the Center of the Aztec Empire.
200
Aztec capital built on an island in a large lake.
What is Tenochtitlan?
200
Blending of beliefs and practices.
What is syncretism?
200
Chosen by parents to sponsor their new baby and watch over his or her upbringing.
What is Compadres/godparents?
300
Blending of people of Native American and European descent, creating a new ethnic group.
What is Mestizos?
300
Dominated the presidency and Mexican politics for nearly 70 years.
What is "Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI)?
300
Early Native American buildings that were decorated. Wall paintings and pictures or designs made with colored stone or tile.
What is murals and mosaics?
300
Spanish and Portuguese tradition of man supremacy.
What is Machismo?
400
In some Latin American countries, growing cities have absorbed surrounding cities and suburbs.
What is Mega-cities?
400
The first permanent European settlement was founded in 1493.
What is Island of Hispaniola?
400
Mexico's national sport.
What is bullfighting? OR what is soccer?
400
Family structure ruled by a women usually.
What is matriarchal?
500
Continent that is home to an ethnically diverse population, today many indigenous cultures inhabit parts of this region.
What is South America?
500
Movement of plants, animals, and infectious diseases between Europe and the Americas.
What is the Columbian exchange?
500
One of the most common pre-Columbian musical instruments from the Andean Region.
What is Panpipes?