social studies Chapter 2 lesson1 & 2
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1.
ancestor
An early family member
2.
archaeologist
A scientist who studies the culture of people who lived long ago.
3.
argiculture
farming
4.
artifact
An object made by early people
5.
century
a period of 100 years
6.
civilization
a culture that usually has cities and well-developed forms of government, religion, and learning.
7.
class
a group of people who are alike in some way. Classes are treated with different amounts of respect in a society.
8.
decade
a period of 10 years
9.
descendant
A person's child, grandchild, and so on
10.
extinct
no longer in existence
11.
Glacier
A huge, slow-moving mass of ice covering land
12.
migration
The movement of people
13.
millennium
a period of 1,000 years
14.
nomad
a wanderer who has no settled home
15.
origin story
A story or set of stories by Native American people that tell about their beginings and how the world came to be
16.
pueblo
a spanish word for "village"
17.
slavery
the practice of holding people against their will and making them carry out orders.
18.
technology
the use of scientific knowledge or tools to make or do something
19.
theory
A possible explanation
20.
time line
a diagram that shows events that took place during a certian period of time.
21.
tribe
a group of people who share the same language, land, and leaders