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Ancient Americans
Term | Definition |
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Migration | A movement of people from one place to another. |
Glacier | A huge sheet of ice. |
Band | A small group of people who work together to do activites. |
Nomad | A wanderer who has no settled home. |
Culture | A peoples way of life. |
Archeologist | A scientist who studies the cultures from people from long ago. |
Artifact | An object that the early people had made. |
Origin Story | A story that tells of a peoples belifs about the world and their place in it. |
Technology | The use of scientific knowledge or tools to make or do something. |
Agriculture | Farming |
Tribe | A group made up of many bands of people with a shared culture and land. |
Surplus | More than is needed. |
Civilization | A culture that has well developed forms of governmet, religion, and learning. |
Temple | A place of worship. |
Pueblo | A group of adobe houses that the Anasazi and other Pueblo peoples lived in. |
Adobe | A mixture of sand and straw that is dried into bricks. |
Beringia | An ancient land bridge that once connected Asia and North America. |
Culture Diffusion | The spread of a culture from one place to another. |