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GA's Native People
Native People & Explorers (set # 2)
Term | Definition |
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archeaology | study of artifacts |
artifacts | tools, pottery, remains of structures |
backcountry | the land away from the coast |
chert | sedimentary rock used by the American Indians to make knives |
colony | geographic area controlled by another country |
commoners | the work force in the Mississippian culture |
culture | refers to beliefs, traditions, and way of life of a group of people |
elites | the power holders for the Mississippian culture |
expedition | a journey for a specific purpose |
horticulture | planting and harvesting of food rather than gathering from the wild |
immunity | natural resistance to disease |
maize | another name for corn |
middlemen | merchants who bought and sold goods others made for a profit |
missions | settlements where priests could live and work in major Indian towns |
nomads | people who move around from place to place |
palisades | sharpened poles or logs, stuck into the ground standing up, making a wall |
plantation | a large farm |
slave | a person who had few rights and who spent his/her entire life in service of others |
wattle and daub | walls built of a network of interwoven sticks and covered with mud and clay |