6th grade Mexico Test
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- Northern Mexico
- Most properous and modern areas
- Olmec
- Earliest known people in Mexico
- Southern Mexico
- Country poorest region
- NAFTA
- North America Free Trade Agreement, has made trade easier
- Central Interior
- Lies north of the capital and has lots of farms
- Haciendas
- Huge farmlands granted by the Spanish monarch to favored people in Spain's colonies
- Chinampas
- Raised fields on ehich the aztec grew crops
- Hernan Cortes
- Spanish explorer
- Obsidian
- Natural glass
- Climates of Mexico
- The climate varies a lot
- Ejidos
- Lands owned and worked by groups of Mexican Indians
- Oil Coast
- Forested coastal plains
- Aztec
- Trribe from the north, made chinampas great armies, lived in central mexico
- Moctezuma the 2nd
- The Aztec ruler
- Maquiladoras
- Foriegn-owned factories located along Mexico's nothern border with the U.S.A
- Maya
- Tribe before the Aztec, they lived in yucatan peninsula, made great ruins and a complete writing system
- The Yucatan
- Sparsley populated and is mostly farmland
- Greater Mexico City
- Most developed and populated city or region
- Glyphs
- Written characters representing objects and sounds
- Mesoamerica
- Mexico and Central America
- Mexico
- A country below U.S.A
- 1821
- year Mexico won independence from Spain
- Mount Orizaba
- The highest peak
- Conquistadores
- Spanish conquerors during the era of colonization in the Americas
- Natural Resources of Mexico
- Oil, copper, gold, silver,zinc, etc.
- Tenochtitlan
- Where the aztec empire was
- Epidemic
- Widespread outbreak, often referring to a diease
- New Spain
- The territory in which the axtec and other indian people used to live on