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chapter 1,2,3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Paleo | older or ancient, especially relating to the geological past. |
| Archaic | very old or old-fashioned |
| Woodland | land covered with trees. |
| Mississippian | relating to, or being the period of the Paleozoic era in North America following the Devonian and preceding the Pennsylvanian or the corresponding system of rocks |
| Archaeologist | a science that deals with past human life and activities by studying the bones, tools, |
| Artifacts | a simple object (such as a tool or weapon) that was made by people in the past |
| Anthropologist | the study of human races, origins, societies, and cultures |
| Culture | a particular society that has its own beliefs, ways of life |
| Antiquites | ancient times, very great age |
| horticulture | the science of growing fruits, vegetables, and flowers |
| Clovis Points | are the characteristically-fluted projectile points associated with the North American Clovis culture |
| Mounds | a rounded mass projecting above a surface. |
| palisade | a high fence made of pointed stakes that was used in the past to protect a building or area |
| Woolly Mammoth | a heavy-coated mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) formerly inhabiting the colder parts of the northern hemisphere |
| Barter Economy | economies are one of the earliest, predating monetary systems and even recorded history. |
| Maize | technical or chiefly British term for corn |
| Bow and arrow | weapon consisting of two parts - a weapon for shooting arrows, composed of a curved piece of resilient wood with a taut cord |
| Projectile points | object that was hafted to a projectile, such as a spear, dart, or arrow, or perhaps used as a knife |
| Colonization | is the act of setting up a colony away from one's place of origin. |
| Spanish missions | denoting a style of architecture characteristic of the Catholic missions in Spanish |
| Barrier islands | a broadened barrier beach, habitable in places, that provides a measure of protection for the mainland |
| Influence | he capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects |
| Smallpox | acute, highly contagious, febrile disease, caused by the variola virus, and characterized by a pustular eruption that often leaves permanent pits or scars |
| Catholicism | the faith, system, and practice of the Catholic Church |
| New world | one of the names used for the Western Hemisphere, specifically the Americas including nearby islands |
| Prehistoric | relating to or denoting the period before written records. prehistoric man |
| Shale | rock of fissile or laminated structure formed by the consolidation of clay |
| Tribe | a social division in a traditional society consisting of families or communities linked by social, economic, religious, or blood ties, with a common culture |
| Clan | a group of close-knit and interrelated families |
| sherds | |
| Nomads | member of a people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture |
| Effigy | sculpture or model of a person. |
| Atlatl | a stick used by Eskimos and early American Indians to propel a spear or dart |
| Chiefdom | is a form of hierarchical political organization in nonindustrial societies usually based on kinship |
| Beringia | a loosely defined region surrounding the Bering Strait, the Chukchi Sea |
| Middens | dunghill or refuse heap. |
| mastodon | large, extinct, elephant like mammal of the Miocene to Pleistocene epochs, having teeth of a relatively primitive form and number. |
| Pottery | pots, dishes, and other articles made of earthenware or baked clay |
| Oral tradition | is information passed down through the generations by word of mouth that is not written down |
| Wattle and daub | a material formerly or traditionally used in building walls, consisting of a network of interwoven sticks |
| mound buliders | practicing settled agriculture and known for their often large burial, temple, or effigy mounds. |
| Expeditions | a journey or voyage undertaken by a group of people with a particular purpose, especially that of exploration, scientific research, or war |
| Guale island | was an historic Native American chiefdom along the coast of present-day Georgia and the Sea Islands. |
| fur trade | is a worldwide industry dealing in the acquisition and sale of animal fur |
| Conquistador | a conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century. |
| Monarchy | a form of government with a monarch at the head |
| Protestant | a member or follower of any of the Western Christian churches that are separate from the Roman Catholic Church and follow the principles of the Reformation |
| Mercantilism | belief in the benefits of profitable trading |
| Relative location | Absolute location, however, is a term with little real meaning, since any location must be expressed relative to something else |
| Absolute Location | absolute location is designated using a specific pairing of latitude and longitude in a Cartesian coordinate grid |
| 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 | an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles |
| Parallels | a person or thing that is similar or analogous to another. |
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