Name: Joe Student
US History _____
Chapter 1 Vocabulary Activity
Directions: Match the term to the definition.
nomad
migration
theocracy
carbon dating
civilization
artifacts
adobe
Ice Age
archeology
pueblo
federation
hieroglyphics
1. Things left behind by early peoples, such as stone tools. ____________
2. pictures or symbols that are used to represent word, sound or concepts
____________
3. a highly developed society ______________
4. a person who moves from place to place ____________
5. a government linking different groups _______________
6. a village of stone dwellings built by the Anasazi _____________
7. a movement of a large number of people into a new homeland ____________
8. a type of sun dried brick _____________
9. a scientific method to find out how old an artifact is ________________
10. a society ruled by religious leaders. __________________
11. a period of extremely cold temperatures when part of the planet’s surface
was covered with massive ice sheets. _______________
12. the study of ancient peoples. ___________________
define:
13. drought14. culture15. terrace16. maize-
a bank of level land cut into a mountainside in order to promote farming
long period without rainfall.
the shared customs, beliefs and traditions of a group of people
a type of corn grown by early Americans