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Ch.1
Age Of Exploration
| Term | Definition | Part of speech |
|---|---|---|
| archaeology | The study on acient peoples | noun |
| artifacts | The tools, weapans and other objects early people left behind. | noun |
| strait | A narrow body of water that connects two larger ones | noun |
| migration | A movement of people from one are to another | nouns |
| nomads | people who moved from place to place in search of hunting grounds | noun |
| sources | The decline in population meant that early Americans have to find other sources of food. | noun |
| maize | It's a type of corn | noun |
| carbon dating | Scientists have a method of determining how old an artifact is. Using a process called carbon dating. | noun |
| estimate | They can use this measurement to come up with an estimate of the artifact's age. | verb |
| cultures | Eventually, the groups of people living in the Americas developed their own cultures, traditions and praying methods. | noun |
| civilizations | great civilizations , or highly developed societies, thrived in Mexico, Central America, and South America | noun |
| complex | They also came up with complex methods for tracking time, counting, and writing. | adjective,noun,verb |
| theocracy | A society ruled by religious leaders. | noun |
| hieroglyhics | symbols or pictures that represent things, ideas, and sounds. | noun |
| linked | These causeways linked the island and the shore. Elsewhere, they used earth to fill in parts of the lake, creating fields for growing crops. | verb |
| terraces | In order to farm their mountainous lands, the Inca cut terraces, or broad platforms, into steep slopes | noun |
| irrigated | They irrigated , or brought water to, their corn, cotton, and other crops by digging hundreds of miles of channels. | verb |
| channels | body of waters made into the ground | noun |
| pueblos | The Ancient Puebloans built great stone dwellings that Spanish explorers later called pueblos or villages | noun |
| structure | The huge structure was at least four stories high and had hundreds of rooms | noun,verb |
| federations | agreements among different groups to join together. | noun |
| clans | he different members of the Iroquois League were organized according to clans, or groups of related families. | noun |
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