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37 Cards in this Set
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How many times bigger is Mexico than Spain?
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4 times
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Which body's of water border the oriental (east)?
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Caribe y Gulf of Mexico
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Which body of water borders the occidental (west)?
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Pacific
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What are the major beaches of the Caribe side?
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Cancun, Cozumel and Isla Mujeres
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What are the major beaches of the Pacific side?
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Puerto Vallarta, Acapulco and Ixtapa
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What covers a large portion of Mexico?
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Un meseta
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What are the two grand sierras?
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Sierra Madre Occidental y Oriental
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What do the grand sierras form in the middle?
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A volcanic montain range with 3 major peaks
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What is the north part of Mexico like?
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Humid, with deserts Sonora y Chihuahua, cactos y flores silvestres
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What is the south east part of Mexico like?
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Selva tropicals, Lacandona, typical fauna
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What are the various climates in the north, sur, y centro?
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North--dry, desert
Sur--tropical Centro--meseta, templado |
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What are the four major groups that live in Mexico?
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Olmecas, Mayas, Toltecas, y Aztecas
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What was the base of olmecas' survival? What did it enable them to do?
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agriculture, build large communities
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What did the olmecas build?
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pyramids, big heads, massive figures, ceremonies
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What role did olmeca culture play in the culture of Mesoamerica
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it was the mother culture
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What were the mayans good at?
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math and astronomy
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What was the name of the Mayan calendar?
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el Haab
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How was the mayan calendar divided?
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365 days, 18 months, 20 days each, 5 extra days
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What did the mayans account for in their calendar?
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rotation of the earth and leap years
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Where did los toltecas settle?
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valley of Mexico en la ciudad de Tula
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What were the toltecas good at?
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commerce and fighting
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What was the last grand empire of Mexico? What were they good at?
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Aztecs, fighting
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What was the Aztecs main god? What was he the god of?
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Huitzilopochtli, god of war
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What did the Aztec god tell them?
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To go look for a better place to live
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What signalled the Aztecs reached their new home? Where was it?
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An eagle above a catus devouring a serpant
Tenchtitlan the future site of Mexico City |
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Who conquered the Aztecs? When and Where did he arrive? Coming from?
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Hernan Cortes in 1519 landed on the Yucatan penensula from Cuba
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What did Cortes have with him?
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500 men, 16 horses, 14 weapons, 11 boats
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Who & what helped Cortes conquer the aztecs
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The indigenas & the fact that the aztecs didn't have horse or guns
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What did the aztecs think Cortes was
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A centaur
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What is the name of la plaza mayor en Mexico City?
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Vete al Zocalo
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What can you see in la plaza mayor?
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La cetedral metropolitana
Templo Mayor de aztecas el placio nacional el museo nacional de antropologia |
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What are the major foods of Mexico?
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tamales, tostadas, quesadillas, tacos
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What is the base of Mexican society?
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corn
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What are famous muralist & painters of Mexico
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Diego Rivera, Jose Clmente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, y Frida Kahlo
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What is the famous park in Mexico?
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El bosque de Chapultepec
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What does the park have?
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museos de arte, castle of 18th century, and monument to ninos heros who died defending the castle
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What other famous tourist spots are in Mexico?
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beaches, pueblos coloniales, pyramids de Teotihuacan or temples of Chichen Itza
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