Vocabulary
a complete ban on trade with a country
What is embargo?
She helped Cortez defeat the Aztecs by gathering thousands of natives to join him.
Who was Malinche?
These are the TWO earliest Mesoamerican civilizations.
What are the Olmec and the Zapotec?
The Caribbean is vulnerable to many natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and this.
What are hurricanes?
This is the capital of Mexico.
What is Mexico City?
In Spanish colonial America, an American-born descendant of Spanish settlers.
Who are creole?
This French emperor invaded Spain in the 1800s.
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
The Maya were polytheistic which means they believed in this.
What is many gods?
These are people of mixed American Indian and Spanish descent.
Who are mestizos?
This is the capital of Jamaica.
What is Kingston?
The spread of cultural traits from one culture to another.
This was the former slave who saved his master and led a rebellion in Haiti in 1791.
Who was Toussaint L'Ouverture?
This is the name of the Aztec city that was built in present-day Mexico City.
What is Tenochtitlan?
These are symbols that stand for a word.
What are hieroglyphics?
This is the country whose capital is San Salvador.
What is El Salvador?
These are artificial islands built by the Aztecs to grow crops.
What are chinampas?
He was the first explorer to see the Pacific Ocean which he called the South Sea.
Who was Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
This is what connected Tenochtitlan, the island built in the middle of Lake Texcoco, to the shore.
What are causeways?
This is was Mayans built on the top of pyramids.
What are temples?
This country's capital is Belmopan.
What is Belize?
After Mexico lost the Mexican-American war, they had to give up 1/3 of their territory in this agreement.
What is the Mexican Cession?
He was the dictator of Cuba from 1959-2008 when he named his brother, Raul, to be the next dictator.
Who was Fidel Castro?
This is the shift to living in settled villages and growing plants for food.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
This country built the Panama Canal.
Who is the United States?
This is the capital of Haiti?
What is Port-au-Prince?