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Grade 5 SS
Chapter 1 The First Americans
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| migrate | to move from one place to another |
| hunter-gatherer | an early person who lived by hunting animals and gathering nuts, seeds, and fruit |
| geography | the land and bodies of water of a place |
| climate | the weather in a place over time |
| nomad | a person who moves within a specific region to follow herds of animals and collect food |
| agriculture | the planting and raising of crops |
| technology | the use of scientific knowledge or tools to do work |
| irrigation | the use of technology to bring water to crops |
| civilization | a society in which there are organized of government, religion, and learning |
| influence | to help produce an effect |
| distribute | to spread out |
| Tenochtitlán | the Aztec main city center which is now Mexico City |
| Inuit | lived in the far northern part of North America and relied on the sea for whales, seals, and other animals |
| Mound Builders | started a civilization around the Ohio River and used trees and earth for building |
| Ancestral Puebloans | lived in the desert Southwest and used irrigation to become successful farmers |
| Chumash | lived in present-day Southern California and used fire to burn shrubs and grasslands |
| Calusa | lived on the Florida coast and used shells as a resource |
| Custom | taxes on products coming into the country |
| tradition | a custom or belief passed on from one generation to the next |
| folklore | traditional customs, beliefs, stories |
| ancestor | a relative who lived in the past |
| Government | a system for making rules and decisions to help a group or nation |
| council | a decision-making body that could be made up of a group’s single leader or a small group of leaders |
| confederacy | another name for the confederate states of America, the southern states during the US civil war |
| league | a group whose members have the same goals |
| economy | the system by which a group makes, shares, and uses goods |
| commodity | a trade goods that is a raw material and not manufactured |
| trading network | a system of trade routes that connected different areas |
| Strait | a narrow body of water |
| Buffalo | primary food source of groups in the Great Plains |
| Maya and Aztecs | advanced civilizations in Central America |
| kayak | developed by the Inuit |
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