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UNIT 1 VOCABLARY
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| location | a site or positon of a palce or thang |
| Era | A period of time |
| Gulf Indians | Coahuiltecans, Karankawas (harshest environment, hunter-gatherers, ate snakes, lizards, snails, armadillos, etc., greatly affected by European diseases) |
| Plains Indians - | Kiowas, Apache, Comanche, Tonkawas (Nomadic, followed the buffalo, wore buffalo skin clothing and lived in tepees) |
| Southeastern indians | Wichita, Atakapans, Caddo ( Lived in the piney woods area of Texas, had face & body tattoos, were hunter-gatherers) |
| Pre-history Era - | This era is the prehistory of Texas up to the point of contact with Europeans in 1528.This era includes natural geologic history as well as Native American history. |
| Age of Contact | 528-1690 -This era Includes the encounters of Cabeza de Vaca and the numerous expeditions over the next 150 years that define what the Europeans and American Indians understood about each other and Texas. |
| Spanish Colonial Era - | 1690-1821- This era deals with the efforts of Spain to bring Texas under Spanish control. The Spanish established missions, town, ranches, and military posts in South Central and East Texas. |
| Ogallala Aquifer - | a large aquifer, or an underground layer of porous rock that contains water, that stretches from South Dakota to Central Texas |
| austin | the capital of Texas, located in Central Texas in the Coastal Plains region |
| Rio Grande Valley | an area at the southern tip of Texas along the northern bank of the Rio Grande River as it nears the Gulf of Mexico |
| Beringia - | a region now covered in water that was exposed duringp the last ice age, it included the Bering Strait that connects Alaska and Asia |
| Migrate | To move from one place to another for social, economical, or religious reasons |
| Mesa | a naturally flat topped hill |
| envirment | the surrounding in witch the people |
| plain | a lagre area or flat or nearly flat , land |
| barrier island | a steep slope or cliff |
| fault line | a crack in earth surface caused by moving plates |
| plateau | a area of high flat land |
| basin | a sunken area in a pluteu |
| elevation | hight above sea level |
| arid | lacking height water for thing |
| petorlemu | a type of oil that is the source gasoline |
| droght | a period then nomarl |
| erosion | the wearing away of earth surface by the movment of water ice wind and gravity |
| butte | small flat top hill |
| shaman | person belived to have the powers to summon sprits |
| nomad | person who moves place to place |
| archaeologist | scirntist who studies the physical remains of the past |
| artfact | any object made or used by humans such as tool pottery bones shells |
| confedaracy | a union of different groups |
| matrilineal | refreffing to a group that traces kinship through the mothers line |
| hunter gather | who moves place to place to hunt |
| adobe | a mix of sun dired earth and straw used to build homes |
| patrilineal | referring to a group that traces kinship through the fathers line |
| tepee | a tent made from bison hide |
| middle man | a dealer or agent acting as a go between for the producers of goods and retaliers or consumers |
| basin | s sunken area in a pluteua found between mountains ranges |
| elevation | height above sea level |
| escarpment | a steep slope |
| fault line | a crack in the earth |
| plateau | an area of high flat land |
| Puebloan Indians | Chochos, Tiguas, Adobe (Lived in the Mountain & basin region of Texas where there was very little plant life. They ate seeds, cactus, small animals, lived in pueblos built adobe style with clay) |
| Southeastern indians | Wichita, Atakapans, Caddo ( Lived in the piney woods area of Texas, had face & body tattoos, were hunter-gatherers) |
| Era | A period of time |
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