mexico Flashcards
Rio Bravo
The river that border US and Mexico
Peninsula
A piece of land surrounded on three sides by water
Baja California
Peninsula by the gulf of california
Gulf of mexico
`Seperated from Caribbean Sea by a part of mexico
Yucatan Peninsula
Sea by a part of mexico
Sierra Madre
mother range
empire
An is a land with different territories and people under a single ruler
Mestizos
spaniards called people of mixed European and indian ancestry
missions
Church outposts know as
haciendas
or huge expanses of farm or ranch land
Influenced
It a culture
Inflation
is a rise in prices occurs when currency loses its buying power
Slash and burn
which is the practice of burning forest in order to clear land for planting
cash crop
is a crop that farmers grow mainly to sell a profit
Industry
Oil business Many mexicans work for Oil