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| Central American Free Trade Association (CAFTA) |
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| NAFTA for central america |
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| city with a population of over 10 million (sao paulo, mexico city, buenos aries, rio) |
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| The conversion of tropical forest into pasture |
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| treeless high plain of peru and bolivia |
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| One of the most studied weather phenomena in LA, occurs when a warm pacific current arrives along the normally cold coastal waters of ecuador and peru in december |
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| a condition in which a country has a primate city three to four times larger than any other city in the country |
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| where many of the urban poor live in self-built housing on land that does not belong to them |
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| long-observed practice of maintaining large estates |
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| peasants farming small plots of land, lati vs. mini |
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| government lead redistribution of land |
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| money sent back home to family from work country |
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| Organization of American States (OAS) |
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| an organization that represents a more neutral hemispheric vision of american relations and cooperation has held sway |
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| supranational organizations |
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| governing bodies that include several states |
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| subnational organizations |
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| groups that represent areas or people within the state |
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| Mexican assembly plants that line the border with the United States |
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| stresses privatization, export production, FDI, and few restrictions on imports |
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| a process by which a country adopts, in whole or part, the U.S. dollar as their official currency |
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| the expansion of EU capitalism created the region's underdevelopment |
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| the provision of goods and services without the benefit of government regulation, registration, or taxation |
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| Southern Cone Common Market |
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| Treaty of the Tordesillas |
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| Portuguese presence in the americas |
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| tropical ecosystems of the western hemisphere |
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| humid lowlands interspersed with large upland plateaus |
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| blends of different belief systems |
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| the potential of returnees to contribute to the social and economic development of a home country with the experiences they have gained abroad |
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| training professionals for the benefit of developed countries |
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| the forced removal of africans from their native area |
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| the huge gap between gross income and the total tourist dollars |
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| Caribbean Community and Common Market |
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| Representing former english colonies, proposed an abitious regional industrialization plan and the creation of the caribbean development bank to assist the poorer states |
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| economic flight of caribbean peoples across the globe |
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| the blending of african, european, and some amerindian cultural elements into the unique cultural systems found in the caribbean |
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| duty-free and tax-exempt industrial parks for foreign corporations |
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| four large islands cuba, jamaica, hispaniola, and puerto rico make up |
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| a storm system characterized by a large low-pressure center and numerous thunderstorms that produce strong winds and heavy rain. |
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| workers contracted to labor on estates for a set period of time, often several years |
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| a cultural region that extends from midway up the coast of brazil through the guianas and the caribbean into the southeastern US. |
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| a term used to describe the economical and geographical position that the caribbean is in. |
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| from a double arac of small islands stretching from the virgin islands to trinidad |
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| communities of runaway slaves |
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| plantation producing a single commodity |
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| claimed that the United States would not tolerate european military involvement in the western hemisphere |
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| the practice of using capitalism, globalization, and cultural forces to control a country |
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| appeals to foreign banks and corporations by offering specialized services that are confidential and tax exempt |
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| coastal zone of the mainland, beginning with Belize and extending along the coast of Central America to northern South America |
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| a vision for political unity of africa, formed this organization |
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| conference that was convened in order to avoid military conflict over colonization of africa |
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| official policy of racial segregation that shaped social relations in South Africa for nearly 50 years |
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| wood and charcoal used for household energy needs, especially cooking |
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| social units that are branches of a tribe or an ethnic group larger than a family |
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| people who flee their state because of a well-founded fear of persecution based on race, ethnicity, religion, or political orientation |
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| internally displaced persons |
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| have fled from conflict but still reside in their country of origin |
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| the deliberate and systematic killing of a racial, political, or cultural group |
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| A south african term describing people of mixed african and european ancestry |
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| the expansion of desertlike conditions as a result of human-induced degradation |
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| a high cliff separating two comparatively level areas |
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| the northeastern corner that includes somalia, ethiopia, djibouti, and eritrea |
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| a state in which corruption is so institutionalized that most politicians and government bureaucrats siphon off a huge percentage of the country's wealth |
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| millennium development goals |
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| a global united nations effort to reduce extreme poverty by focusing on basic education, health care, and access to clean water |
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| typically graze their stock on the stubble of harvested fields during the dry season |
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| popular symbol for the dangers of unchecked population growth and human-induced environmental degradation when a relatively wet period came to an abrupt end |
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| the movement of animals between wet-season and dry-season pasture |
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| amid the poorer tropical soils, cropping usually entails shifting cultivation |
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| spread sleeping sickness to cattle, humans, and some wildlife |
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| consisted of a group of families or clans with a common kinship, language, and definable territory |
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| loyalty to the ethnic group rather to the state |
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| structural adjustment programs |
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| typically reduce government spending, cut food subsidies, and encourage private-sector initiatives |
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| region produced many new cultural ideas tat subsequently diffused widely to other portions of the world |
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| organization of the petroleum exporting countries |
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| has advocated a return to more traditional practices within the Islamic religion |
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| the number of people per unit area of arable land |
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| an ecologically diverse zone that stretches from the Levant inland through the fertile hill country of northern Syria into Iraq |
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| a traditional form of subsistence agriculture in which people depend on the seasonal movement of livestock for a large part of their livelihood |
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| where plants and animals were purposefully selected and bred for their desirable characteristics |
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| transport precious water and nutrients from more humid lands to drier regions where the resources are utilized for irrigated farming |
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| collectively worked settlements that produce grain, vegetable, and orchard crops irrigated by waters from the Jordan River and from the country's elaborate canal system |
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| tapping into groundwater through a series of gently sloping tunnels was widely replicated on the Arabian Peninsula and in North Africa |
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| water supplies stored underground during earlier and wetter climatic periods |
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| religious pilgrimmage to Mecca |
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| religious leaders shape many aspects of government policy |
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| favored passing on power within Muhammed's own family |
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| advocated passing down power through the established clergy |
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| a book of teachings received by Muhammed from Allah |
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| the interplay of water resource issues and politics |
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| includes the nations of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia |
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| challenges the encroachment of global popular culture and blames colonial, imperial, and western elemetns for many of the regions political, economic, and social problems |
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| eastern mediterranean region |
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| empire that included southeastern europe and most of southwest asia and north africa |
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| peoples in the Gaza Strip on Israel |
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