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What is a sedentary society?
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People who settled in permanent villages or towns
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semi-sedentary societies
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People who settled in villages or towns but moved every few years in search of food.
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non-sedentary societies
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People who move continually in search of food
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Maya
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ancient Native American civiliation of Mesoamerica (region between modern-day Mexico and Nicaragua)
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Inca
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Native American civilization that developed in what is now Peru
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Aztec
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Native American civilization that spread through what is now Mexico
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Pueblo
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Native Americans who built great mud-brick cities
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migrate
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to move from one region to another
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society
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group of people with common interests, customes and way of life
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civilization
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complex society in which people share key characteristics such as language and religion
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slash-and-burn
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process of clearing land by cutting down and burning trees
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savanna
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flat grassland with abundant wildlife, thorny bushes and scattered trees
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slave
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someone who is captured for use in forced, unpaid labor
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great famine
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a wide spread food shortage that killed thousands of Europeans
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Black Death
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deadly disease that spread through Europe in the 14th century
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Renaissance
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a time of increased interest in art and learning in Europe
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Reformation
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movement that divided the church between Catholics and Protestants
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Catholics
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Christian followers of the Roman Catholic Church
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Protestants
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Christian group that broke away from the Catholic Church
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printing press
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device that mechanically printed pages by pressing inked forms onto paper, invented in about 1455
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Sahara Desert
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a large desert in Northern Africa
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Islam
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religion that teaches there is on God, named Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet
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Muslim
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follower of the religion of Islam
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Ghana
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West African kingdom that prosperred between A.D. 700 and 1000
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Mali
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West African kingdom that ruled from about 1200-1400
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