The First Americans
Terms
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- Describes past events that are preserved in written records.
- history
- A huge sheet of ice that moves slowly across the land.
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Glacier
- A time when glaciers covered much of the Earth's surface
- Ice Age
- The study of prehistoric people
- archaeology
- The time before written records
- prehistory
- Objects made by people in the past.
- artifact
- A developed culture or society
- Civilization
- large area of different groups of people ruled by one country or leader.
- Empire
- A throwing stick used by early people who attached it to a spear to make the spear go farther and faster.
- Atlatl
- An area of low wetland that is covered mostly with tall grasses
- marsh
- A cone-shaped tent that can be put up and taken down quickly. The Apaches used these.
- Teepee
- The way people worship God or the gods they believe in.
- Religion
- Means "village" in Spanish; any of several Native American groups that live in adobe and stone houses
- Pueblo
- Payment in the form of valuable goods and services
- Tribute
- A small family group to which some Native Americans belonged
- Band
- Brick made from clay and straw that has been dried in the sun.
- adobe
- A long heavy fishing line that has several baited hooks on it.
- trotline