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Unit 1 Vocabulary
Chapter 1 , 2, & 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Sunbelt | A group of southern states that stretches from the east coast. |
| Regions | Areas that are similar in terms of landscape , climate , elevation and plant and animal life. |
| Coastal Plain | The southernmost region in georgia. |
| Fall Line | At the fall line elevations rise and fall. |
| Peidmont | A rolling hilly region that stretches north from the fall line. |
| Appalachian Mountains | A large mountain range that stretches from Alabama to Cananda. |
| Appalachian Plateau | is in the far northwest corner of Georgia. |
| Archaeologist | a specialist in archaeology, the scientific study of prehistoric peoples and their cultures by analysis of their artifacts, inscriptions, monuments, etc. |
| Artifacts | an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest. |
| Pre-historic | relating to, or denoting the period before written records. "prehistoric man" |
| Culture | is a way of life of a group of people--the behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them |
| Paleo Indians | to the first peoples who entered, and subsequently inhabited, the American continents |
| Archaic Periods | The Early Archaic Period in Georgia and elsewhere in the eastern United States was approximately 10,000 to 8,000 years ago |
| Woodland Period | North American pre-Columbian cultures was from roughly 1000 BCE to 1000 CE in the eastern part of North America. |
| Agriculture | the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products. |
| Renaissance | A time of increased interest in art and learning |
| Christopher Columbus | A spanish explorer who believed he could sail across the Atlantic |
| Wooly Mammoth | a species of mammoth that lived during the Pleistocene epoch, and was one of the last in a line of mammoth species |
| Shale | a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock composed of mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals |
| Tribe | a distinct people, dependent on their land for their livelihood, who are largely self-sufficient, and not integrated into the national society |
| Palisade | sometimes called a stakewall or a paling—is typically a fence or wall made from wooden stakes or tree trunks and used as a defensive structure or enclosure |
| Merchantalism | belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism |
| Monarchy | a form of government in which sovereignty is actually or nominally embodied in one or several individual(s) reigning until death or abdication |
| Colonization | Colonization occurs whenever there is a large-scale migration of any one or more groups of people to a colonial area |
| smallpox | An eradicated virus that used to be contagious, disfiguring, and often deadly. |
| Catholicism | The Latin and Eastern Catholic Churches together form the "Catholic Church", or "Roman Catholic Church", the world's largest single religious body and the largest Christian church |
| Barrier islands | are long, narrow, offshore deposits of sand or sediment that run parallel to the coastline. They are separated from the main land by a shallow sound, bay, or lagoon |
| Projectile points | In archaeological terms, a projectile point is an object that was hafted to a projectile, such as a spear, dart, or arrow, or perhaps used as a knife. |
| Barter economy | is a cashless economic system in which services and goods are traded at negotiated rates. |
| Atlatl | is a tool that uses leverage to achieve greater velocity in dart-throwing |
| Bow and Arrow | A bow is a flexible arc which shoots aerodynamic projectiles called arrows. |
| Mounds | a rounded mass projecting above a surface. |
| Effigy | a sculpture or model of a person. |
| Chiefdom | is a form of hierarchical political organization in non-industrial societies usually based on kinship, and in which formal leadership is monopolized |
| Oral Tradition | is cultural material and tradition transmitted orally from one generation to another |
| Horticulture | the art or practice of garden cultivation and management |
| Protestant | a member or follower of any of the Western Christian churches that are separate from the Roman Catholic Church |
| Clovis points | are the characteristically-fluted projectile points associated with the North American Clovis culture |
| Antiquities | the ancient past, especially the period before the Middle Ages |
| Anthropologist | the study of humankind, in particular. |
| Sherds | is commonly a historic or prehistoric fragment of pottery, although the term is occasionally used to refer to fragments of stone and glass vessels as well. |
| Moats | a deep, wide ditch surrounding a castle, fort, or town, typically filled with water and intended as a defense against attack. |
| Nomads | is a member of a community of people who live in different locations, moving from one place to another. |
| Conquistador | a conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century. |
| Beringa | a western island of the Komandorskie Islands group in the Bering Sea |
| Guale-Sea Island | was an historic Native American chiefdom along the coast of present-day Georgia and the Sea Island |
| Fur trade | a worldwide industry dealing in the acquisition and sale of animal fur. |
| New world | The New World is one of the names used for the Western Hemisphere, specifically the Americas |
| Podium | a small platform on which a person may stand to be seen by an audience, as when making a speech or conducting an orchestra |
| Middens | an old dump for domestic waste which may consist of animal bone, human excrement, botanical material, vermin, shells, sherds |
| wattle and duabe | is a composite building material used for making walls, |
| Mastodon | a large, extinct, elephantlike mammal of the Miocene to Pleistocene epochs, having teeth of a relatively primitive form and number. |
| Blue ridge Mountains | The Blue Ridge Mountains are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Mountains range |
| valley and ridge | A ridge or mountain ridge is a geological feature consisting of a chain of mountains or hills that form a continuous elevated crest for some distance. |
| Joint stock company | a company whose stock is owned jointly by the shareholders. |
| Charter | a written grant by a country's legislative or sovereign power. |
| Relative Location | a point or place in relation to another point or place |
| Absolute Location | A point on the earth's surface expressed by a coordinate system such as latitude and longitude |
| hemisphere | a half of the earth, usually as divided into northern and southern halves by the equator, or into western and eastern halves by an imaginary line passing through the poles. |
| equator | the great circle on a sphere or heavenly body whose plane is perpendicular to the axis, equidistant everywhere from the two poles of the sphere . |
| parallels | extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging. |
| Prime meridian | he meridian running through Greenwich, England, from which longitude east and west is reckoned. |
| Meridians | a great circle of the earth passing through the poles and any given point on the earth's surface. |
| Latitude | the angular distance north or south from the equator of a point on the earth's surface, measured on the meridian of the point. |
| Longitude | angular distance east or west on the earth's surface. |
| Compass Rose | a circle divided into 32 points or 360° numbered clockwise from true or magnetic north, printed on a chart or the like as a means of determining the course of a vessel or aircraft. |
| scale | one of the thin, flat, horny plates forming the covering of certain animals, as snakes, lizards, and pangolins. |
| Goods | morally excellent; virtuous; righteous; pious. |
| Services | an act of helpful activity; help; aid: to do someone a service. |
| Imports | o bring in (merchandise, commodities, workers, etc.) from a foreign country for use, sale, processing, reexport, or services. |
| Exports | to ship (commodities) to other countries or places for sale, exchange, etc. |
| Climate | a region or area characterized by a given climate. |
| Weather | the state of the atmosphere with respect to wind, temperature, cloudiness, moisture, pressure, etc. |
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