California History Ch.1 Bc

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Soft Power

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To get what you want by attraction and persuading

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Joseph Nye

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Harvard professor, came up with power concept in foreign policy; smart, soft, hard.

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Subduction

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the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate.

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Paleolithic

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early phase of the Stone Age, which appeared first in Africa and are marked by the steady development of stone tools and later antler and bone artifacts, engravings on bone and stone, sculpted figures, and paintings and engravings on the walls of caves and rock-shelters

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Neolithic

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last phase of the Stone Age, marked by the domestication of animals, the development of agriculture, and the manufacture of pottery and textiles

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Kelp Highway

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the first Americans reached the New World by following the coastline along Beringia and into the American continents. travelers along the Pacific coast relied on a specific route and diet: the kelp forests of the Pacific rim.

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Jon M. Erlandson

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The “kelp highway” hypothesis is a corollary to the coastal migration theory developed by Erlandson and his colleagues to help explain the peopling of the Americas

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Beringia

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the land bridge that existed between Alaska and Siberia that enabled migration of humans and animals to North America.

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Arlington Woman

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bones from an ancient woman who lived on the Channel Islands off Ventura County could be the oldest human remains ever found in North America.

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Chumash Indians

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coast from San Luis Obispo to Santa Monica Bay, as well as the Santa Barbara Islands and the interior westward to the San Joaquin Valley: noted for their sophisticated seacraft, basketry, and rock paintings. regularly navigated the ocean.

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Channel Islands

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first colonized by the Chumash and Tongva Native Americans

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Robert Heizer

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primary area of study was the Great Basin of the United States. Heizer decided early on that more was going on in the west 10,000 years ago, although in the 1950s and 1960s it was widely accepted that there was not much going on.helped determine what the human diet consisted of and dietary changes over time. Heizer also helped lay the groundwork for scientific applications in archaeology

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Material Culture

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physical evidence of a culture in the objects and architecture they make, or have made. The term tends to be relevant only in archeological and anthropological studies, but it specifically means all material evidence which can be attributed to culture, past or present.

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Digger

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applied to several tribes or groups of Native Americans who lived in the Great Basin area of the United States. It referred to those who dug roots for food and was often applied to various groups of the Paiute Indians who lived in eastern and central California.

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Gender Roles (Chumash)

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Chumash men were fishermen and hunters, and sometimes they went to war to protect their families. Chumash women ground acorn meal, did most of the cooking and child care, and wove baskets. Both genders took part in storytelling, music and artwork, and traditional medicine. A Chumash chief could be either a man or a woman.

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Brotherhood- of the Canoe

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wove the coastal and island villages together into a system of trade, travel, and fishing. a kinship-based society. Those who owned tomols commanded wealth and prestige and they wore bearskin capes to mark their status.

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Tomo vs. Tomolo'o

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tomol is unlike other canoes used along the coast. From these logs of redwood, pine, and fir, the canoe maker would split planks using whale-bone wedges and stone tools.

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Mojave/ Yuma

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indigenous to the Colorado River in the Mojave Desert.famous for their fine coiled pottery and beaded jewelry.

Yuma tribe were expert fishers who used utilized nets and baskets to catch fish. They traveled along the Colorado river on rafts and poles to different fishing locations.women were subservient to men, however it was the woman who chose who she would marry.