Chapter 15 Mexico and Central America
6th grade chapter 15 test
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- Middle America
- region formed by Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies
- El Salvador
- smallest and most densely populated Central American coast
- Hernando Cortes
- Spanish explorer who came to Mexico in 1519 looking for wealth
- Maya Indians
- people who built the first great civilization of the Western Hemisphere
- silver
- precious metal that Mexico produces more than any other country
- Honduras
- country that is home of the ancient Mayan city, Copan
- Lake Nicaragua
- largest lake in Central America
- Mayan achievements
- developed use of the zero and a 365-day calendar
- Costa Rica
- country whose name means "rich coast"
- Sierra Madre Occidental and Sierra Madre Oriental
- mountain ranges that rim the Mexican Plateau
- coffee
- major export crop of Central Amercian countries
- Aztecs
- Indian tribe that built a powerful empire in Mexico
- Canada and the U.S.
- countries that form Anglo-America
- Panama
- country that links North and South America