Geography Test 2

6 different

Warm coastal lowlands, plantation agriculture

Temperate, greatest poplation concentrations. Center of the Aztec empire

Cold, agriculturally marginal

Spain and Portugal, Massive population decline- "Great Dying"

Promote the goals fo colonialism. God, gold, glory.

The Caribbean Islanda and the Caribbean coast are the Rimland. Everything else is Mainland.

M- Templada. R- caliente

M- Indo-European (mestizo). R- Afro- European

M- hacienda. R-Capitalist Plantations

The "supre-state" based upon physical diversity and population base.

The most primate region and city. It stretches from Veracurz to Guadalajara.

Housing- slums or squatter settlements. Water shortages. Atmospheric pollution.

Foreign-owned "maquiladora" assembly plants.

• "Colonia" of job migrants are disease prone.
• Extensive industrial pollution
• Widespread use of young female labor challenges traditional family structure
• 1994 NAFTA balance of trade problems with the U.S.

• Traditional mining economy centered on Monterrey.
• Modern natural gas fuels growth of diversified heavy industrial base.
• Extensive development of large scale grain farms.

• Center of national petrochemical industry based on offshore oil and gas deposits.
• Frontier of humid ranchlands and fruit agriculture
• NAFTA is implemented, open boarders, now we can export corn more.

• Isolated and mountainoous region of poor Mayan Indian groups, especially Chiapas
• Government neglect/globalization promotes regional "Zapatista" guerilla movement in the mid 1990s

• Government extracts natural resources with little wealth reutrned to people.
• Government rescinds communally- owned "ejidos" lands established in 1917 Revolution
• Contesting NAFTA potential for introduction of genetically modified corn.

To separate the earth. Half to the Spanish and half to the Portuguese.

• Most urbanized.
• Produce transported from throughout southern Mexico and northern Central America. Very sacrificial.

• Emerged in the highlands of Guatemala.
• Achieved levels of math and writing equal or superior to other present day Old World civilizations.

• High mountain valleys of southern Peru and Bolivia.
• They excelled at imposition of authoritarian social and political control and the construction of highways and bridges.

Control over large pieces of land and became a mechanism by which Europeans and their descendants gained and maintained control over land and Indian vilages.

• practiced by small
• European upper class;
• emphasizes piety, faith, and participation;
• Women are attend mass regularly and heavy emphasis on devotional societies, charities, and social clubs.

• Includes the majority of the rural peasant population as well as almost all the poor;
• no financial contributions are made;
• priests may be viewed negatively;
• men are unlikely to entire the church more than twice in their lifetime.

• a mixture of European Catholicism and non-Catholic beliefs and practices;
• centered in the ancient hoy places of mountains and valleys.

a large tropical or subtropical agriculture unit emphasizing one or two crops that are grown for export.

A Spanish term used in Latin America for a large rural landholding, usually devoted to animal grazing; which had a high degree of internal self-sufficiency and operated under a semi-feudal system dominated by criollo owners who resided primarily in urban centers.

A Spanish term used in Argentina and Uruguay to describe a large rural landholding, usually devoted to stock raising, especially of horses and cattle; similar to a ranch.

• Secularism, or a pervasive lack of religious interest and involvement by the general membership.
• Fundamentalist Protestantism has diffused extensively throughout the region at the grassroots level.
• The leftist ideology

• To est. good public education
• Building national allegiance
• Strengthening national allegiance