Chapter 2-- Early Indian Civilizations (Mississippians)

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architecture
the art or practice of designing and constructing buildings
agriculture
growing crops and raising animals
civilization
an advanced state of human society, in which a high level of social structure, religion, technology, agriculture, and government has been reached
geography
the study of physical and human features on earth
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government
the system of power and authority to make laws and decisions
polytheism
the belief and worship of more than one god
social structures
the patterns (or hierarchy) of relationships that shape any society
technology
Knowledge that people use to make a way of life in their surroundings
multiple-cropping
planting one crop, harvesting it, and immediately planting another crop on the same field
intercropping
planting multiple types of crops together
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wattle-and-daubsmall shelter made of wooden poles covered with woving siding of bark branches and twigs (called wattle) and then covered with sticky mud and clay (called daub)palisadea fence made of wooden poles that surrounds a settlement from attackmoata wide, water-filled ditch built to surround a settlement or building to protect it from attackbluffa high cliff, often overlooking a riverearthen moundsbuilt by Mississippians for important buildings, religious buildings, and priest/chief homeschiefdoma group of villages and surrounding areas that was ruled by a central chiefhierarchya system or organization in which people or groups are ranked according to status or authoritytributean offering or payment to a leader or rulerelitePeople of wealth and powerHernando de SotoSpanish explorer who fought the Mississippians in search of gold and lost, but brought them diseases that killed many of them

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