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| a plain extending along a coast. |
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| A conqueror, especially one of the 16th-century Spanish soldiers who defeated the Indian civilizations of Mexico, Central America, or Peru. |
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| An area having relatively little precipitation due to the effect of a barrier, such as a mountain range, that causes the prevailing winds to lose their moisture before reaching it. |
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| The Columbian Exchange has been one of the most significant events in the history of world ecology, agriculture, and culture. The term is used to describe the enormous widespread exchange of plants, animals, foods, human populations (including slaves), communicable diseases, and ideas between the Eastern and Western hemispheres that occurred after 1492. Many new and different goods were exchanged between the two hemispheres of the Earth, and it began a new revolution in the Americas and in Europe. In 1492, Christopher Columbus' first voyage launched an era of large-scale contact between the Old and the New Worlds that resulted in this ecological revolution: hence the name "Columbian" Exchange. |
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| the part of the American continents south of the United States in which Spanish, Portuguese, or French is officially spoken |
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| mutually dependent; depending on each other. |
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| 1. | (in the Republic of South Africa) a rigid policy of segregation of the nonwhite population. |
| 2. | any system or practice that separates people according to race, caste, etc. |
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| a person of racially mixed ancestry, esp., in Latin America, of mixed American Indian and European, usually Spanish or Portuguese, ancestry, or, in the Philippines, of mixed native and foreign ancestry. |
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| (in Spanish-speaking countries) a head of state, esp. a military dictator. |
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| a person who is harsh to its people but are allies and or friends with the US |
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