Unit 1 Migration
To move from place to place
Migration
Widespread transfer of plants, animals, precious metals, technology, diseases, and ideas between the New World and the Old World.
Columbian Exchange
Local weather conditions of an area
Climate
A written plan of government that outlines the basic laws of a state, country, or organization
Consititution
Type of economy that relies on tradition and passes down a skill from generation to generation
Traditional
Having a system of order in the people of a group or tribe.
Hierarchy
Grown to be sold rather than for use by farmers
Cash crop
All the plant life in an area
Vegetation
Branch of government that makes the laws
Legislative
Lacking in quantity or number
Scarcity
Things archeologists find from the past, in order to study that time people, or group of people.
Artifacts
Sailed for Spain and was looking for a Northwest Route to Asia but ended up in the Bahamas
Christopher Columbus
The study of the Earth and how people use it
Geography
Another word for a king or a queen in a Parlimentary Democracy
Sovereign
The production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services
Economics
Part of the world that has the continents of North and South America.
Western Hemisphere
The transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas.
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
A broad geographic area
Region
Branch of government that interprets the laws
Judicial
Inputs you need to make products
Resources
A species of animal that is no longer in existence or has no other living family members
Extinct
The anchor on CNN10
Coy Wire
The number of people living per square mile
Branch of government that enforces the laws
Executive
4 types of resources
Material
Financial
Human
Natural