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Bellaire SS8 CH1 vocab

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Archaeology   the study of the written past  
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Artifacts   remains of abjects made by humans  
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Paleo-Indians   the first Americans  
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Migration   the movement of people from one region to another  
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Hunter-gathers   people who hunt animals and gather wild plants to provide for their needs  
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Environments   climates and landscapes that surround living things  
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Domestication   breeding plants and animals such as dogs, to meet specific human needs  
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Maize   corn grown by humans  
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Societies   a group that shres a common culture  
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Culture   is made up of common values and traditions; such as languages, government and family relationships  
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Glyphs   symbols and images that represent ideas  
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Where is Beringia?   the area between Alaska and Russia  
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Where is Mesoamerica?   the land between North America and South America  
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Kayaks   one-person canoes almost completely enclosed by animal skins used for transportation  
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Igloos   Native Americans in the Artic use blocks of ice to build housing in the winter  
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Totems   carved wooden trees of ancestors or animals on tall poles  
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Potlatches   events at which hosts gave away most of their goods in order to gain respect  
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Kivas   circular ceremonial rooms  
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Wigwams   circular huts  
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longhouses   rectangular dwellings made from logs and bark; Iroquois  
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Iroquis League   a unique political confederation made up of the Seneca, Oneida, Mohawk, Cayuga and Onondaga tribes  
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Colony   settlement  
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Middle Ages   a period of time that started around the late A.D. 400s and began to end around A.D. 1350  
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Feudalism   a system of government in which people pledged loyalty to a lord in exchange for protection  
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Manor   large estates  
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Magna Carta   “Great Charter”; agreed to by King John of England, it gave the nobility and other individuals greater rights and made it clear that the nobility and monarchs must obey the law  
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Crusades   5 war between 1096 and 1221 for possession of the Holy land  
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Silk Road   an overland trade route several thousand miles long, stretching from the Black Sea to China  
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Muhammad   a merchant who lived on the Arabian Peninsula, told of receiving a holy vision that directed him to establish the religion of Islam who worshiped a God called Allah  
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Kublai Khan   he ruled an empire that stretched 4000 miles across Asia’s central plains from the Adriatic Sea to China’s southern coast; he thought that trade was very important and used his navy to open trading networks  
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Zheng He   a young boy who was captured in the ming dynasty, he grew strong and became a skilled military commander. He seized the Ming throne and built a large fleet of ships for trading silk and spices in India, Africa and Arabia  
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Timbuktu   important trading city; a center of Islamic culture and learning  
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