| A | B |
|---|
| plantation | large piece of land worked by peasants |
| diverse | many different things |
| Andes Mountains | natural barrier in western South America loaded with gold & silver |
| debt | you owe money |
| deforestation | cutting down trees - decreasing the world's oxygen supply |
| hinder | to slow |
| ethnocentrism | judging others by your own culture & standards |
| genocide | deliberate killing off of a race or group |
| gentry | wealthy landowners |
| Liberation Theology | when the Church looks out for the rights of the people/gets involved in politics |
| migration | to move to |
| urbanization | people move from the countryside to cities for jobs & a higher standard of living |
| machismo | Latin American MALE ego/high status in family |
| stratified | layered/ structured/organized - rigid - little advaancement |
| Amazon River | allows for transportation inland |
| regionalism | being loyal to an area or region instead of to a nation/country |
