A Latin American Study Guide
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Virgin Islands
British
Anguilla
British
Montserrat
British
Honduras
British
New Grenada
British
New Spain
Spanish
New Grenada
Spanish
Spanish
La Plata
Spanish
Spanish
Dominican Republic
Spanish
St. Martin
Dutch
Dutch Guiana
Dutch
Brazil
Portuguese
Guadeloupe
French
Marie Glante
French
Martinique
French
St. Martin
French
French Guiana
French
Haiti
French
Mainland- The region of densely populated area that stretches from the mainland of Mesoamerica to the northern South American rimland
Rimland- The area of heavy population density that is around the coast or the “rim” of South America
Mestizos- People of mixed heritage of European blood and indigenous Americans
Mulatto- People of mixed heritage between European and African
Favelas- Shanty town
Barrios- District or Neighborhood
Altitudinal Zonation- The classification of climate and vegetation based on the altitude
Maquiladora- A special factor constructed near the border which provides Mexicans jobs and the US cheap labor
NAFTA- North American Free Trade Association- A term to help Mexicans by introducing more jobs and also the US by moving businesses to places with cheaper wages
Latifundia- Huge plantations owned by the wealthy
Minifundia- Farms lent to farmers who could not afford land, this plan usually comes with sharecropping (you only keep a % of what you produce)
Ejido- The government promotes the communal farms so that everyone could all farm, originally by the indigenous people of America
Cash Crop- Crops raised to mainly produce profit and not for personal use
Ecotourism- Tourist destinations that shows the tourist both the natural scenic beauties, and the native people inhabiting them
Plantation Agriculture- Large scaled farming, usually not for subsistence cropping.
3. The population is concentrated along the coast, which is called the rimland and also the central Mesoamerica, called the mainland. The map on pg507 shows a higher concentration of dots near the rimland region and also the inland of central America
4. The pull factor for the early Europeans to the place was largely gold, silver and other valuable metals which they discovered that the native Americans had them
5. Latin America have a fast urban growth because more rural population are in poverty and are coming to the big cities to look for job even though there are non left, and so they will still be in poverty, but they have too much pride to admit their mistakes so they will stay in the big cities, waiting and hoping that someday god will give them a job.
6. The 4 factors of dry climates are Mountains, high landforms, which produces orographic precipitation and generally occurs on the leeward side of the