Ancient Civilization
People of Mesoamerica had to use this farming method to make their soil richer.
What is slash-and-burn agriculture?
The man that led the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
Spain ruled Mexico for about this many years.
What is 300?
The most densely settled region in Mexico.
What is the Mexican Plateau?
The language spoken most commonly in Middle America.
What is Spanish?
These were the three main crops of Mesoamerica.
What are corn (maize), beans, and squash?
About 90% of native peoples died after the Europeans came for this reason.
What is disease?
The United Provinces of Central America gained independence in this year.
What is 1823?
The two cultural influences blended in Mexico‘s culture today.
What are spanish and native cultures?
Major waterway that connects the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic.
What is the Panama Canal?
The Maya had this kind of government instead of one unified empire.
What are city-states?
The new system of labor set up by the Spanish in their colonies.
What is the encomienda system?
1910 event in Mexico caused by poverty and a corrupt election.
What is the Mexican Revolution?
These are payments sent into a country from outside of it, and are important to Mexico’s economy.
What are remittances?
Two groups grown by native Caribbean peoples.
What are corn and cassava?
The names of the first two groups to live in the Mesoamerica rainforest region.
Who are the Olmec and the Zapotec?
The Spanish eventually used Africans for labor on plantations for this reason.
What is Africans were more resistant to European disease and could do more labor?
Mexican President elected in 1861 who promised reforms but failed to deliver.
Who is Benito Juarez?
One of the reasons that Costa Rica is politically stable.
What is not having a military OR investing in higher education?
Two indigenous groups of the Caribbean.
Who are the Arawak and the Carib?
Two reasons historians believed Mayan Civilization declined.
This was the vast exchange of people, goods, and ideas between the Old World and the New.
What is the Colombian Exchange?
Political group founded in 1929 and ruled Mexico for many years.
What is the PRI?
Two major issues facing urban Mexicans today.
What are poverty and pollution?
What are Hurricanes, Earthquakes, landslides deforestation, and urban pollution?