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Bering Land Bridge
a strip of land connecting Alaska with Russia that emerged from underwater around 38,000 BC
Paleo-Indians
the first Americans who crossed from Asia into North America sometime between 38,000 and 10,000 BC
Migration
movement of people from one place to another
hunter-gatherers
Nomadic groups whose food supply depends on hunting animals and collecting plant foods
environment
the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.
Culture
Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.
Pueblos
Above ground houses made of a heavy clay called adobe.
Kivas
underground ceremonial chambers
Totems
Ancestor or animal spirits on tall wooden poles
Teepees
cone-shaped shelters made of buffalo skins used by Native Americans in the Plains region
Matrilineal
relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother
Iroquois League
political alliance of five Iroquois groups, known as the Five Nations, in the late 1500s
Soctrates
Philosopher who stressed the importance of introspection
Plato
Socrates' most well known pupil. Founded an academy in Athens.
Aristotle
Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato, the tutor of Alexander the Great, and the author of works on logic, metaphysics, ethics, natural sciences, politics, and poetics
reason
Clear and ordered thinking
Democracy
government by the people
Knights
Warriors who fought on horseback
Black Death
A deadly plague that swept through Europe between 1347 and 1351
Michelangelo
(1475-1564) An Italian sculptor, painter, poet, engineer, and architect. Famous works include the mural on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and the sculpture of the biblical character David.
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect
Johannes Gutenberg
German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press (1400-1468)
joint-stock company
a company whose stock is owned jointly by the shareholders.
Olmec
The first Mesoamerican civilization. Between ca. 1200 and 400 B.C.E.
agriculture
the science or practice of farming, allowed native groups to stop being nomadic
Marco Polo
Merchant who traveled to the East and started interest in Asian goods and products
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