Study Guide
Concepts and Terms
Use these terms to focus on particular items in the text. Read and study these terms, don't just memorize a brief definition. Become acquainted with what they mean in the larger context of the study of Middle and South America. Review this study guide and the study guide on the Middle East printed in week 13 for your 3rd exam.
Chapter 4: Middle America - p. 196-225, 232
The
major geographic qualities of Middle America, know all countries and capital
cities, land bridge, archipelago, Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles, culture
hearth, historical geography, cultural landscape, Maya, Highland Aztecs, effects
of the Spanish conquest, lingua
franca, Middle America, Central
America, maize, "White
Gods," Hernan Cortez, Hispaniola, Caribs, Panama Canal,
Auguellli's Mainland-Rimland framework, Island Indians,
"The hacienda," "The
Plantation," political
differentiation, ejidos, Castro's Cuba, Caribbean, the irritant industry,
mestizo, mulatto, NAFTA,
push-pull of Mexican cities, acculturation, transculturation, dry canal,
maquiladora, tropical deforestation, Puerto Rico’s clouded future.
Chapter
5:
South America - p. 237-253
Major
geographic qualities of South America, know all countries and capital cities,
Cuzco, Inca, Peru, altiplano, Machu Picchu,
physiography of South America, Iberian Invaders - Pizzaro,
land alienation, Treaty of Tordesillas, Africans in South America,
cultural fragmentation, South American Culture Spheres, commercial
agriculture, subsistence agriculture, FTAA, economic integration, urbanization
in South America, rural -to -urban migration
megacity, the Latin American city and its parts,
informal sector, barrio (favela), growth pole concept, geography of
cocaine
Created by Bill Strong. 11/11/01. Updated 4/29/02 wrs.