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thick sheets of ice
What are glaciers?
100
object made by humans and used by archeologists to recreate a picture of the past
What is an artifact?
100
the study of evidence left by early people
What is an archeologist?
100
the entire way of life that a people has developed which includes behavior, customs, ideas, beliefs, and skills
What is culture?
100
sun-dried brick
what is adobe?
200
adobe dwelling of the anasazi. spanish word for village or town
What is pueblo?
200
a long dry spell
What is a drought?
200
a region in which people share a similar way of life
What is a culture area?
200
houses of snow and ice
What is an igloo?
200
small skin boats
What is a kayak?
300
a ceremonial dinner
What is a potlatch?
300
houses made of mud plaster over a framework of wooden poles
What is a hogan?
300
cone shaped tents draped with buffalo hides
What is a teepee?
300
a sled
What is a travois?
300
an Iroquois dwelling
What is a long house?
400
tribal chiefs
What is a sachem?
400
an advanced culture that includes cities, government, religion, social classes, and specialized skills and jobs.
What is a civilization?
400
writing that uses pictures to represent words and ideas
What are hieroglyphics?
400
this civilization grew up in the rain forests of Mexico and Gautemala
What is Mayan?
400
underground chamber where men held religious ceremonies
What is a kiva?
500
this empire built its capital city on an island in the middle of a lake
Who were the Aztecs?
500
this ancient civilization believed that their emperor was descended from the sun god
Who were the Incas?
500
the name of the group of people that Christopher Columbus encountered on a Caribbean island.
Who were the Tainos?
500
name 3 things the Europeans shared with the Native Americans
What is disease, metal working, domestic farm animals like horses, cows, pigs, goats
500
name three things the native americans shared with the Europeans
What is farming like corn, pineapple, squash, blueberries, language, sports, hunting techniques
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