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Social chapter 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| archaeologist | a scientist who learns about people who lived long ago by studying the things they left behind |
| migrate | to move to from one place to a another |
| glacier | a mass of ice that moves slowly over the land |
| agriculture | a skill in growing plants for food;farming |
| surplus | an extra amount of anything but particularly of something people need |
| civilization | a culture with cities,a government and many different jobs for people to do |
| mesoamerica | the southern part of north America ,including central America |
| empire | a variety of territories and groups of people controlled by one government |
| pueblo | a community of native American groups living in the south west yhe south west |
| woodlands | an area that is mostly covered by trees |
| boundary | a line separates the territory of one group from another |
| confederacy | an organization of groups that band together for purpose |
| drought | a long period with almost no rain falls and crops are not able to grow properly |