Latin America Vocabulary
Across
- 4. area of a country in which trade restrictions do not apply
- 8. knotted cords of various lengths and colors used by the Inca to keep financial records
- 11. narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas
- 14. some places do not benefit as much as others from social and economic advancement
- 15. cultivation or growth of a single crop over a wide area for a consecutive number of years
- 16. farm product grown to be sold or traded rather than used by the farm family
Down
- 1. reduce the ability of an environment to support the population, resulting leaving or decline
- 2. group or chain of islands
- 3. business that employs workers in their homes
- 5. household made up of several generations of family members
- 6. a center where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward
- 7. provides the basic needs of a family with little surplus
- 9. people of mixed indigenous and European descent
- 10. local form of a language used in a particular place or by a certain group
- 12. "conqueror" Spanish soldier who conquered indigenous peoples of Latin America
- 13. technological and economic growth that does not deplete human and natural resources