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Ancient Americans
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Migration | A movement of people from one place to another. |
| Glacier | A huge sheet of ice. |
| Band | A small group of people who work together to do activites. |
| Nomad | A wanderer who has no settled home. |
| Culture | A peoples way of life. |
| Archeologist | A scientist who studies the cultures from people from long ago. |
| Artifact | An object that the early people had made. |
| Origin Story | A story that tells of a peoples belifs about the world and their place in it. |
| Technology | The use of scientific knowledge or tools to make or do something. |
| Agriculture | Farming |
| Tribe | A group made up of many bands of people with a shared culture and land. |
| Surplus | More than is needed. |
| Civilization | A culture that has well developed forms of governmet, religion, and learning. |
| Temple | A place of worship. |
| Pueblo | A group of adobe houses that the Anasazi and other Pueblo peoples lived in. |
| Adobe | A mixture of sand and straw that is dried into bricks. |
| Beringia | An ancient land bridge that once connected Asia and North America. |
| Culture Diffusion | The spread of a culture from one place to another. |