Refers to a situation in which the concentration of a nation's population in just one city.
Prevailing winds that blow from west to east, named for their origin not their destination.
Goods that come from agriculture, forestry, mining, and fishing.
A major sailing route that linked Europe, Africa and the New World in the transport of goods and slaves.
The targeting and forced removal of ethnic minorities by other groups and/or the nation-state
Refers to people of mixed European-indigenous origin, including the vast majority of the people of Central America.
Also referred to as voodoo. Emerged in the New World from the mixing of African and Christian religious beliefs and practices.
The surface temperature of seawater.
Factories in Mexico, often close to the US-Mexico border that export goods northwards to the USA.
Prevailing winds that blow from east to west, named for their origin not their destination.
A plan in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century by Scottish investors to establish a colony of Scottish settlers in the isthmus of Central America.
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.
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