Chapter 3 Key Term Quiz

Central America and Caribbean
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Religions with beliefs and practice created from multiple religious traditions.

Occurred when European colonists came to the New World and brought diseases that killed millions of indigenous people.

The name, most often used as a derogatory term, given to El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua because their economies were based on tropical primary commodities such as bananas, but were also highly corrupt and unstable.

A subtropical, semi-permanent, high- pressure zone in the Atlantic

A city that is the largest in the country and is the center of economic and political life.

The abandonment of cities and towns of the Mayan Empire in the 8th and 9th centuries.

Elite groups that use their political power to enrich themselves rather the nation welfare and at the expense of general social welfare.

A trade union between Canada, Mexico and the USA.

A crop that is easy to bring to market and is also considered a primary good, such as wheat.

The region of the world that falls between the Tropic of Cancer (23.43 degrees North) and the Tropic of Capricorn (23.43 degrees South).

The dominance of a country by one city region

The targeting and forced removal of ethnic minorities by other groups and/or the nation-state

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