SS-Chapter 1
Terms
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- Religion
- Beliefs about God or gods.
- Specialize
- Work on one job they could do well.
- Surplus
- More than was needed.
- Temples
- Places of Worship
- Adobe
- a mixture of sandy clay and straw that is dried into bricks.
- Agriculture
- Farming
- Archaeologist
- Scientist who study the cultures of people long ago.
- Artifacts
- Objects that early people had made.
- Civilization
- A culture that has well-developed forms of government, religion, and learning.
- Culture
- Way of Life
- Drought
- A long dry spell
- Extinct
- Die Out
- Glaciers
- Hugh sheets of Ice
- Maize
- Corn
- Migration
- A movement of people from one place to another.
- Nomads
- Wanderers who have no settled home.
- Pueblos
- A group of adobe houses that the Anasazi and other Pueble people lived in.
- Pyramids
- A building with three or more sides shaped like triangles.
- Technology
- The use of scientific knowledge or tools to make or do something.
- Tribe
- A group made up of many bands of people with a shared culture and land.