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| Culture | A particular group of people's way of life, including their language, traditions, arts, skills, food, and music is known as this |
| Chinampas | The name for the floating gardes the Aztecs created to enable them to grow crops on Lake Texcoco |
| Conquistadors | Spanish conquerors were called this |
| Roman Catholic or Roman Catholicism | This is the religion that the Spanish brought with them to the new world |
| Community owned farms that were formed when the Haciendas were broken up and Mexico finally had a constitution | Ejidos |
| 100 years | After many many wars for independence, Mexico finally gained a constitution in 1917. This process took approximately this many years |
| Not treated fairly | Mexico eventually fought back against Spain to gain their independence because they felt that they were ________ _______ ________ |
| Father Hidalgo | This man gave a fiery speech that started a rebellion against the European country that controlled them |
| Spain | Mexico eventually fought for independence from this country that conquered them |
| Native Americans | After being conquered by Spain, these people were forced into slavery or servitude |
| Metal Tools | The Spanish taught the Native Americans how to make these types of tools |
| Food, animals, ideas | The Spanish and the Native Americans shared these with one another upon meeting one another |
| Pyramids | The Aztecs built magnificent ____________ for religious ceremonies and human sacrifice |
| Codices | Both the Maya and the Aztec these to keep records and tell stories or myths |
| Mestizo | A person of mixed Spanish and Mexican ancestory |
| Haciendas | After the Spanish conquered the Aztecs and other Native Americans they set up these large estates where the Native people were forced to work or be slaves |
| Disease | Sadly, when the Spanish arrived they brought this with them that killed millions of Aztecs and Native people |
| Peninsulares | After the Spanish conquered the Aztecs and Native People, a new social structure was put in place. At the top of this social structure were the most important people called _____ |
| Ejidos | Community owned farms are called ________________ |
