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Agricultural revolution: occured between 9000 and 10000 years ago in Mesoamerica
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Astrolabe: a device inverted by the ancient greeks and refined by Arab navigators
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Bartolemeu Dias: reached southern tip of Africa, later named cape of Good Hope
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Beringia: land that connects Asia with Alaska.
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Caravel: portugese ship that incorporated all improvements
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Circumnavigate: sail around the globe
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civilization: highly organized society marked by trade, gvt, arts, science and often written language.
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Columbian Exchange: permanently altered world's ecosystems and changed nearly every culture around the world
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Crusades: expeditions that helped Europe.
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Feudalism: new political system developed in western europe
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Glacier: earth's water frozen into ice sheets
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Ice Age: period of glaciation
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Kachina: a good spirit
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Kinship Groups: extended families
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Kiva: circular ceremonial rooms
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Line of Demaracation: imaginary north to south line running down the middle of the atlantic
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Longhouse: large and recreational. With barrel shaped roofs covered in bark
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Manoralism: describes economic ties between nobles and peasants
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Matrilineal: many central African societies were this
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Mize: large seeded grass, corn
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Mosque: Muslim places of worship
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Nomad: people who continually move from place to place
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Obsidian: volcanic glass
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pueblo: spanish word for villages
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Radiocarbon Dating: determines how old objects are
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Renaissance: intellectual revolution.
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Savannah: make for a more hospitable landscape
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Serf: people who were bound to the manor and couldn't leave it without permission
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Slash and Burn: cut down parts of forests and then burning the clear land.
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Vikings: people who came from scandinavia
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Wigwam: conical or dome shaped and made using bent poles covered with hides or bark