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nomadic
having no fixed home, moving from place to place according to seasons and availability of food and water
Olmec
a native american people whose civilization flourished in what is now southern Mexico in the period 1200-400 bc
Maya
a native american people whose civilization flourished in Guatamala and the Yucatan Peninsula between about ad 250 and 900
Aztec
a native american people that settled in the Valley of Mexico in the 1200s ad and later developed a powerful empire
Inca
a native american people that around ad 1400 created an empire reaching nearly 2,500 miles along the west coast of South America
Hohokam
a Native American group that lived in the valleys of the Salt and Gila rivers (in what is now Arizona) from about 300 bc to ad 1400
Anasazi
a Native American group that lived of the mesa tops, cliff sides and canyon bottoms of the Four Corners region (where the present-day states of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah meet) from about ad 100 to 1300
Adena
a Mound Builder society that was centered in the Ohio River valley and flourished from about 700 bc to ad 100
Hopewell
a Mound Builder society that was centered in the Ohio River valley and flourished from about 200 bc to ad 400
Mississippian
the last and most complex of the Mound Builder societies, inhabiting the Ohio and Mississippian valleys from about ad 700 into the 1500s
Kashaya Pomo
a Native American people the formerly inhabited the coastal marshlands of what is now California
Kwakiuti
a Native American people that formerly inhabited the northwestern coastal regions of North America
Pueblo
a group of Native American peoples - descendents of the Anasazi - inhabiting the deserts of the Southwest
Iroquois
a group of Native American peoples inhabiting the woodlands of the Northeast
kinship
the ties between members of a family
division of labor
the asignment of different tasks and responsibilities to different groups of individuals
Islam
a religion founded in Arabia in ad 622 by the prophet Muhammad; its believers are called Muslims
plantation
a large farm on which the labor of slaves or other workers is used to grow a single crop, such as sugar cane or cotton
Songhai
an empire that, at the height of its power in the 1500s, controlled much of West Africa
savanna
a dry grassland dotted with trees and bushes, found in sub-Saharan Africa and other tropical or subtropical regions
Benin
a West African kingdom that flourished in the Niger Delta region (in what is now Nigeria) from the 14th to the 17th century
Kongo
a group of small kingdoms along the Zaire River in West-Central Africa, united under a single leader in the late 1400s
lineage
a group of people descended from a common ancestor
Renaissance
a period of Europian history, lasting from about 1400 to 1600, during which renewed interest in classical culture led to far-reaching changes in art, learning and views of the world
hierarchy
a social ordering by rank or class
nuclear family
a household made up of a mother, a father and their children
Crusades
a series of Christian military expeditions to the Middle East between ad 1096 and 1270, intended to drive the Muslims from the holy land
Reformation
a religious movement in 16th-century Europe, growing out of a desire for reform in the Roman Catholic Church and leading to the establishment of various Protestant churches
Taino
a Native American people of the Caribbean islands-the first group encountered by Columbus and his men when they reached the Americas
colonization
the establishment of outlying settlement by a parent country
Columbian Exchange
the transfer - beginning with Columbus's first voyage - of plants, animals and diseases between the western hemisphere and the Eastern Hemisphere
Treaty of Tordesillas
the 1494 treaty in which Spain and Portugal agreed to divide the lands of the Western Hemisphere between them