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BellaireSS8 Ch1
Bellaire SS8 CH1 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Archaeology | the study of the written past |
| Artifacts | remains of abjects made by humans |
| Paleo-Indians | the first Americans |
| Migration | the movement of people from one region to another |
| Hunter-gathers | people who hunt animals and gather wild plants to provide for their needs |
| Environments | climates and landscapes that surround living things |
| Domestication | breeding plants and animals such as dogs, to meet specific human needs |
| Maize | corn grown by humans |
| Societies | a group that shres a common culture |
| Culture | is made up of common values and traditions; such as languages, government and family relationships |
| Glyphs | symbols and images that represent ideas |
| Where is Beringia? | the area between Alaska and Russia |
| Where is Mesoamerica? | the land between North America and South America |
| Kayaks | one-person canoes almost completely enclosed by animal skins used for transportation |
| Igloos | Native Americans in the Artic use blocks of ice to build housing in the winter |
| Totems | carved wooden trees of ancestors or animals on tall poles |
| Potlatches | events at which hosts gave away most of their goods in order to gain respect |
| Kivas | circular ceremonial rooms |
| Wigwams | circular huts |
| longhouses | rectangular dwellings made from logs and bark; Iroquois |
| Iroquis League | a unique political confederation made up of the Seneca, Oneida, Mohawk, Cayuga and Onondaga tribes |
| Colony | settlement |
| Middle Ages | a period of time that started around the late A.D. 400s and began to end around A.D. 1350 |
| Feudalism | a system of government in which people pledged loyalty to a lord in exchange for protection |
| Manor | large estates |
| Magna Carta | “Great Charter”; agreed to by King John of England, it gave the nobility and other individuals greater rights and made it clear that the nobility and monarchs must obey the law |
| Crusades | 5 war between 1096 and 1221 for possession of the Holy land |
| Silk Road | an overland trade route several thousand miles long, stretching from the Black Sea to China |
| Muhammad | a merchant who lived on the Arabian Peninsula, told of receiving a holy vision that directed him to establish the religion of Islam who worshiped a God called Allah |
| Kublai Khan | he ruled an empire that stretched 4000 miles across Asia’s central plains from the Adriatic Sea to China’s southern coast; he thought that trade was very important and used his navy to open trading networks |
| Zheng He | a young boy who was captured in the ming dynasty, he grew strong and became a skilled military commander. He seized the Ming throne and built a large fleet of ships for trading silk and spices in India, Africa and Arabia |
| Timbuktu | important trading city; a center of Islamic culture and learning |
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