Middle America Vocabulary

Spanish conquerors during the era of colonization in the Americas

• Maquiladoras

• Conquistadores

• Smog

• Mestizos

A large group of islands

• Archipelago

• Commonwealth

• Ecotourism

• Inflation

Widespread outbreak, often referring to disease

• Mestizos

• Smog

• Dictators

• Epidemic

People of mixed European and American Indian ancestry

• Cash Crops

• Maquiladoras

• Mestizos

• Epidemic

People who rule a country with complete authority

• Dictators

• Civil War

• Epidemic

• Manufacturing

The rise in prices that occurs when currency loses its buying power

• Cash Crops

• Manufacturing

• Inflation

• Cash Crops

Crops produced primarily to sell rather than for the farmer to eat

• Manufacturing

• Subsistence Farming

• Inflation

• Cash Crops

A mixture of smoke, chemicals, and fog

• Smog

• Epidemic

• Inflation

• Cash Crops

Foreign-owned factories located along Mexico's northern border with the United States

• Maquiladoras

• Conquistadores

• Smog

• Ecotourism

The practice of using an area's natural environment to attract tourists

• Archipelago

• Commonwealth

• Ecotourism

• Manufacturing