Flashcards › Unit 2 - Latin America Vocab

relating to country living rural relating to city living urban changing an environment into a more city-like place urbanization consisting of differences diversity point on earth's surface absolute location point on earth's surface dependent on another location relative location number of people divided by space per square mile population density used for farming agricultural an advanced culture with developed economic, social, and political systems civilization to take over a civilization by force conquest a person who takes over a civilization by force conquistador a group of settlers in a distant land ruled by their homeland colony efforts to be free independence movement government that operates in an orderly, predictable manner political stability successful; wealthy prosperous destruction of a forest area deforestation government with one ruler who has all of the power dictatorship can not afford basic human needs poverty to come into a new country and settle there immigration economic want human needs and desires that can be satisfied by consuming goods and services Vocabulary for Latin America