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Flashcard List
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CORAL
a rocklike material made up of many skeletons from tiny
sea animals
DIVERSIFY
to add variety;
to expand
HIEROGYLPH
a system of writing that uses picture symbols for concepts,
objects, or words
AQUEDUCTS
a pipe or channel used to carry water from a distant source
to dry areas
CHINAMPA
narrow strips of land about 300 feet long and 30 feet wide
built in swampy land and used for farming in Central America, particularly by the Aztec
ALLIANCE
a pact or union between states in a common cause
CALPULLI
an Aztec settlement in which families of different social
classes lived and shared the land
TRIBUTE
a kind of tax paid in goods and services to the ruling government
TERRACE FARMING
the building of raised banks of earth on steep land for
agriculture
CONQUISTADOR
the Spanish term for conqueror used in reference to Spaniards
who came to the New World in the 1500s in search of wealth
CIVIL WAR
a war between factions (groups of people forming a minority
in disagreement with the larger) or regions within a country
TREATY
an agreement in writing made between two or more countries
HACIENDA
plantation owned by the Spanish settlers or Catholic Church
in Spanish America
MESTIZO
a person of Spanish and Native American ancestry
LINE OF DEMARCATION
an imaginary line from the North Pole to the South Pole
(at about 50 degree West longitude) set forth in the 1494 Treaty of Tordeseillas;
Spain had the right to settle and trade west of the line
and Portugal had the right to settle and trade east of the line
CRIOLLOS
a person born of Spanish parents outside Spain;
often among the best educated and wealthiest people in the
Spanish colonnies
CAUDILLOS
a military officer who rules strictly
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