Transcript World Geography Powerpoint Chapter 10

CHAPTER 10
Mexico
Section 1: Natural Environments
Section 2: History and Culture
Section 3: Mexico Today
SECTION 2
History and Culture
Question:
What changes occurred in
Mexico during the colonial
period?
SECTION 2
History and Culture
Disease
Many indigenous people were killed by European diseases.
Farming
Small communal ejidos were replaced by large haciendas.
Government
Population
Religion
Aztec Empire was replaced by a Spanish colonial government.
Mestizos became the largest segment of the population.
Most people were converted to Roman Catholicism.
SECTION 3
Mexico Today
Question:
What are some challenges
for the future of Mexico?
SECTION 3
Mexico Today
Challenges for the Future
Resolving
Economic
Inequality
Reducing
Crime
• poverty
• wealth in the hands
of a few rich people
• few opportunities for
Mexican Indians
• loss of skilled
laborers through
migration
• result of widespread
poverty
• main route for drug
smuggling into the
United States
• government
corruption
Improving
Infrastructure
• lack of clean water
and modern sewers
• many roads and
railways out of date
• difficult to move
goods to market
CHAPTER 10
Chapter Wrap-Up
1. Why does northwestern Mexico have dry
weather?
2. What peoples ruled Mexico before the arrival of
Spaniards?
3. Why is Roman Catholicism the most common
religion in Mexico?
4. In what ways is Greater Mexico City important to
the entire country?
5. How have Mexican politics changed in recent
years?