Geography & Ancient Civilizations: Caribbean, Mexico - Antilles, Rimland, Mainland, Quizzes of Geography

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TERM 1

Greater Antilles

DEFINITION 1 The Greater Antilles are one of four island groups in the Caribbean. Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico TERM 2

Lesser Antilles

DEFINITION 2 The Lesser Antilles, also known as the Caribbees, are part of the Antilles, which together with the Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and Greater Antilles form the West Indies. TERM 3

Rimland

DEFINITION 3 Rimland is the maritime fringe of a country or continent; in particular, the densely populated western, southern, and eastern edges of the Eurasian continent. Greater Accesibiltiy, Tropical lowland, islands, euro/african, Mulatoo, Plantation. TERM 4

Mainland

DEFINITION 4 Mainland is a name given to a large landmass in a region (as contrasted with a nearby island or islands), or to the largest of a group of islands in an archipelago. Greater Isolation, Highland, Mountians, Euro/Indian, Mestizo, Haciendas TERM 5

Aztecs

DEFINITION 5 The Aztec people were certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, a period referred to as the late post-classic period in Mesoamerican chronology.

TERM 6

Mayans

DEFINITION 6 The Maya is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems. TERM 7

Tenochtitlan

DEFINITION 7 Tenochtitlan () (sometimes paired with Mexico as Mexico Tenochtitlan or Tenochtitlan Mexico) was a Nahua altepetl (city-state) located on an island in Lake Texcoco, in the Valley of Mexico. Aztec Civilization; 100,00 people