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16 Cards in this Set
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Indigenous
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Peoples descended from an area's first inhabitants
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Yucatan Peninsula
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where the mayas thrived
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Mexico city
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crowded city that has about 19.5 million people within 597 miles. The present capital. Built on the runis of Tenochtitlan
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Tenochtitlan
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The Aztec's capitla built on an island in a large lake
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conquistador
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Cortez conqured the Aztects.
Pizarro conqured the Incas |
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Viceroy
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a highly structured poliical system by royally appointed officials that governed Mexico
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Cuba
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part of the carribean that has experienced a blending of different ethnic groups. Communism
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Dominican Republic
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part of the carribean that has experienced a blending of different ethnic groups
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west indies
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where christopher columbus first landed that triggered the eventual conquest and colonization of Central America and the Caribbean
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Hispaniola
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The first permanent European settlement. Where Hati and the Dominican Republic are.
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Panama
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Where the panama canal was created. The pnama canal is a channel that connets the atlantic and pacific ocean by way of the carribean sea
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Haiti
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Haiti won its independence by 1804 from france
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Puerto Rico
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has political links to the U.S.
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Rio De Jineiro
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the old capital that was over crowded
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Sao Paulo
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One of the largest urban areas in population
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Buenos Aires
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One of the largest urban areas in population
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