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| A steep-sided depression formed when the roof of a cave collapses. P162 |
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| The name the Aztecs gave to raised fields on which they grew crops. P166 |
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| Spanish conquerors during the era of colonization in the Americas. P167 |
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| Widespread outbreak, often referring to disease. P167 |
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| A system in which a central power controls a number of territories. P167 |
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| People of mixed European and American Indian ancestry. P168 |
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| People of mixed European and African ancestry. P168 |
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| Spanish church outposts established during the colonial era, particularly in the Americas. P168 |
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| Lands owned and worked by groups of Mexican Indians. P168 |
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| Huge farmlands granted by the Spanish monarch to favored people in Spain’s colonies. P168 |
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| The rise in prices that occurs when currency loses its buying power. P172 |
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| Crops produced primarily to sell rather than for the farmer to eat. P173 |
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| A mixture of smoke, chemicals, and fog. P174 |
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| Foreign owned factories located along Mexico’s northern border with the United States. P175 |
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| Slash-and-burn agriculture |
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| A type of agriculture in which forests are cut and burned to clear land for planting. P175 |
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