5-1 the Ancient Americans
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sozminkowski on September 12, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 adobe | brick or building made of dried out mixture of sand and straw |
| agriculture | farming |
| archaeologist | a scientist who studies the cultures of people of long ago |
| artifact | an object that early people had make |
| band | a small group of people who work together to do activities |
| century | a period of 100 years |
| civilization | a culture that has developed forms of government, religion, and learning |
| cultural diffusion | the spread of culture from one place to another |
| culture | a particular way of life in a community or society in a period |
| decade | a period of ten years |
| drought | a log dry spell |
| earthwork | a mound, or hill of earth, that people built |
| extinct | no longer living, like a kind of animal that has died out |
| glacier | a huge sheet of ice |
| kiva | a special underground room where the Anasazi held religious services |
| maize | an early form of corn grown by Native Americans |
| mesa | a high, flat-topped hill |
| migration | a voluntary or forced movement of people from one place to another |
| millenium | a period of 1,000 years |
| nomad | a member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons |
| pueblo | a group fo adobe houses that the Anasazi and other Pueble peoples lives in |
| pyramid | a building with three ro more triangle-shaped sides that slant toward a point at the top |
| religion | beliefa about God or gods |
| specialize | to work mostly on one job that could be done well |
| surplus | more than is needed, excess |
| technology | the use of scientific knowledge or tools to make or do something |
| temple | a place of worship |
| theory | a possible explanation for something |
| time line | a diagram that show the events that took place during a centain period of time |
| tribe | a group made up of many bands of people with a shared culture and land |
| Beringia | an ancient land bridge over which the earliest Americans are believed to have migrated from Asia into the Americas |
| the early arrival theory | a theory that the people arrived in the Americas earlier than 12,000 years ago |
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