Active Reading Post #19

5 Comments
1. During rainy season it rains in sudden burtst in the late afternoon and it can be extremely heavy.
2. Mexico has rich varied vegetation
3. Mexico has three main crops which are corn, beans and squash.
4. People of the Mesoamerica resemble people from Eastern Asia and Native Americans.
5. Many migrants arrived on the Strait to the Americas.

4 Questions
1. What is the origin of the capitol city's name?
2. How did diseases spread in Mexico & what were the diseases?
3.

3 Vocab.
1.Progentor
2. Hegemony
3.Wholly.

1 Overview
In this section I learned that the first inhabitants of Mexico arrived across the Bering Strait.

Active Reading #17

5 Comments
1. The U.S and Mexican tax system is similar
2. Mexico's nation coat of arms is an eagle standing upon a cacus hold a wriggling serpent on it's beak
3. The colors of the Mexican flag represent the Catholic religion, insurgent movement and elements of the Spanish population that supported independence.
4.All Mexican country-dwellers live in villages
5. Concrete blocker are now being replaced with adobe.

4 Questions
1. Why do all Mexican country dwellers live in villages?
2. How long have the Mexicans been usin adobe?


3 Vocab
1. Incumbent
2.Eradicating
3. Dividends

1 Overview
In this section, I learned about Mexico's tax system and about their flag & coat of arms.

Active Reading #7

5 Comments
1. Mexico's currency is called peso
2.Peso means "piece of eight" in ancient Spanish
3.Small 20 centavo pieces "toson" are commonly given for tips
4.12 & one half peso is equal to 1 US dollar.
5. Taxes are only 20 cents for import and export

4 Questions
1.Does any one still speak ancient Spanish?
2. Why is Mexican currency so technical?
3. Why taxes so cheap in Mexico?
4. Why was the federal income revise by tha Income Tax Law in 1965?

3 Vocab
1. Supersede:
2.Levied:
3.Statutory:

1 Overview Sentence
In this section i learned about Mexican currency.

History Post #6

5 Comments
1. I dont understand how Mexico's president is more powerful than the United States' president
2. Mexico has no vice president
3. I think the president serves for 6 years.
4. Mexico searches people going to Mexico fromt the United States that may be trying to smuggle drugs.
5. The chinos have became an organized pressured group.

4 Questions
1. How long is the president's term in Mexico?
2. Why is the president most successful in his first two years as president?
3. Since Mexico has no vice president, who will replace the president if he dies?
4. What drugs do Mexicans smuggle?

3 Vocab.
1.Insurgents- Rising in revolt against established authority, especially a government.
2. Agarian
3.sparsely- thinly scattered or distributed

1 Overview Sentence.
In this section I learned that the Mexican president is more powerful than America's president.

History#5

5 Comments
1. La Paz has been linked to the northern productive area by a road that runs through the countryside.
2.Mexico contains a large number of reugees from Latin America and Franco's Spain
3. Mexico first became a federal republic in 1824
4. The Constitution is based firmly upon Roman laws
5. I didnt know the Mexicans goverenment was so powerful.

4 Questions
1. Who do upper-class Mexicans complete their education in Europe?
2. Where is Luis Cabrera from?
3. How did the Spaniards inheirt Roman Laws?
4. How is Mexico's president more successful than United States president?

3 Vocab
1Assurance- a positive declaration intended to give confidence: He received assurances of support for the project
2 Provisional- providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
3 Apex- the tip, point, or vertex; summit

1 Overview Sentence
In this section of the book, I learned that the Mexico has a very strong government.

History Post 4

5 Comments
1. The Spaniards introduced Christianity to Mexico
2. Mexico's traditional styles included white baggy trousers, floppy hats and sandals
3. The Spanish Civil War happened during 1936-1939
4.In 1808 Emperor Napoleon invaded Spain and put his brother on the throne
5.

4 Questions
1. What was Mexico's religion before Christianity?
2.How did Mexico get their traditional styles.

3Vocab
1.Linguistic- of or belonging to language: linguistic change.
2.Hegemony- leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others, as in a confederation.
3.Homogeneous- composed of parts or elements that are all of the same kind; not heterogeneous: a homogeneous population.

2 Literary Terms
1.heavy wave of spanish immigration.

History Post #3

5 Comments
1. Mexico speaks numerous lanugages.
2. Mexico is very polluted.
3. The major opposition party is the right wing Party of National Action.
4. Mexico City is the third largest city in the worl
5.Mexico has French influence.
4 Questions
1. How did Mexico get so polluted?
2. What has the society done to stop pollution?
3. What are some of the languages other than Spanish that the Mexicans speak?
4. What is PAN's major job?

3 Vocab
1.Disarmament
2.Karst
3.Firmidable