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unit 1 vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| location | the site or position of a place or thing |
| environment | the surroundings in which people, plants, or animals live |
| plain | a large area of flat, or nearly flat land |
| barrier island | a narrow line between the mainland and the ocean |
| plateau | an area of high, flat land |
| fault line | a crack in the Earth's surface caused by moving plates |
| escarpment | a steep slope or cliff |
| aquifers | a layer of rock or gravel that absorbs rainfall and keeps it flowing underground |
| basins | a sunken area in a plateau found between mountain ranges |
| elevation | height above sea level |
| arid | lacking enough water for things to grow |
| petroleum | a type of oil that is a source for gasoline |
| drought | a period of lower than normal precipitation |
| erosion | the wearing away of earth's surface by the movement of water, wind, ice, gravity |
| mesa | a small, high plateau |
| butte | a flat-topped hill, smaller than a mesa |
| agribusiness | large-scale farming including |
| nomad | person who moves from place to place |
| archaeologist | scientist who studies the physical remains of the past |
| artifact | any object made or used by humans such as tools, pottery, bones, and shells |
| hunter gatherer | person who lives lives by hunting or gathering food, rather than growing it |
| shaman | person believed to have the power to summon spirits and heal the sick |
| confederacy | a union of different groups |
| matrillineal | referring to a groups that traces kinship through the mother's line |
| adobe | a mix of sun-dried earth and straw used to build houses |
| patrillineal | referring to a groups that traces kinship through the father's line |
| tepee | a portable home made from tanned bison hides fastened to a frame work of poles |
| middleman | a dealer or agent acting as a go-between for the producers of goods and retailers or consumers |
| tribe | a tribe is a number of bands that follow the same leader and share the same territory |
| Gulf Indians | Coahuiltecans, Karankawas (harshest environment, hunter-gatherers, ate snakes, lizards, snails, armadillos, etc., greatly affected by European diseases) |
| Plains Indians | Kiowas, Apache, Comanche, Tonkawas (Nomadic, followed the buffalo, wore buffalo skin clothing and lived in tepees) |
| Puebloan Indians | Chochos, Tiguas, Adobe (Lived in the Mountain & basin region of Texas where there was very little plant life. They ate seeds, cactus, small animals, lived in pueblos built adobe style with clay) |
| Southeastern indians | Wichita, Atakapans, Caddo ( Lived in the piney woods area of Texas, had face & body tattoos, were hunter-gatherers) |
| Era | A period of time |
| Pre-history Era | This era is the prehistory of Texas up to the point of contact with Europeans in 1528.This era includes natural geologic history as well as Native American history. |
| Age of Contact | 1528-1690 -This era Includes the encounters of Cabeza de Vaca and the numerous expeditions over the next 150 years that define what the Europeans and American Indians understood about each other and Texas. |
| Spanish Colonial Era | 1690-1821- This era deals with the efforts of Spain to bring Texas under Spanish control. The Spanish established missions, town, ranches, and military posts in South Central and East Texas. |
| Ogallala Aquifer | a large aquifer, or an underground layer of porous rock that contains water, that stretches from South Dakota to Central Texas |
| Austin | the capital of Texas, located in Central Texas in the Coastal Plains region |
| Rio Grande Valley | an area at the southern tip of Texas along the northern bank of the Rio Grande River as it nears the Gulf of Mexico |
| Beringia | a region now covered in water that was exposed during the last ice age, it included the Bering Strait that connects Alaska and Asia |
| Migrate | To move from one place to another for social, economical, or religious reasons |
| occupied | been invaded and taken over by a foreign power |
| Iturbide | leader of the monarchists that wrote plan of Iguala |
| achieve | To do or accomplish |
| San Antonio | named after missionary Antonio |
| La Bahia | now called Goliad, TX. one of the last mission-Presidios |
| Nacogdoches | heir name, Nacogdoches, meant “from the place of the high ground” (some sources say “persimmon eaters”). |
| Coahuila & Texas | Free and Sovereign State of Coahuila and Texas'), was one of the constituent states of the newly established United Mexican States under its 1824 Constitution. |
| Pecan Point | an early-nineteenth-century settlement scattered on both sides of the Red River in present southeastern Oklahoma and northeastern Texas. |
| Moses Austin | an American business man that hoped to make a living off bringing settlers to Texas |
| Stephen F. Austin | "the father of Texas"-son of Moses-carried out his fathers dreams |
| collapse | to break down or fail |
| grant | a possession, such as land, legally given to someone |
| San Felipe de Austin | the main town of Austin's colony |
| conduct | to direct or lead |
| Republic of Fredania | Haden Edwards failed attempt to free Texas from Mexico |
| Tejano | people with Mexican ancestry that lived in texas |
| Martin de Leon | the only Mexican Empressario that brought mexican settlers to Texas |
| Green Dewitt | A Texan E brought 400 families to Texas |
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