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Olmecs
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people believed to have established the earliest settlement in the Americas in what is now present-day Mexico between 1200 BC and 100 BC
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military
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having to do with armed forces
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Pacific Northwest
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the northwestern portions of North America, especially that area from Alaska, through Canadian British Columbia and into the states of Washington, Oregon, and northern California
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village
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a small settlement
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Hohokam
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a farming society who are best known for building hundreds of miles of irrigation canals between AD 800-1000; lived in what is now present-day Arizona
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reservoir
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a large place used to store water
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Toltecs
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people who ruled a strong civilization in the Mexican highlands about AD 900; this civilization covered the areas of present-day Belize, parts of Guatemala, Hondural, El Salvador, and Mexico
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kachina
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spirits of an ancestor
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burial mounds
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mounds built into the Earth containing small log rooms where the Adena and Hopewell peoples buried their dead
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tobacco
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a plant that some people smoke or chew
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Ice Age
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a period of time when much of the Earth's water was frozen
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Mogollon
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a farming society who built their civilization in what is now present-day southeastern Arizona and southern New Mexico
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Anasazi
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a civilization which began around 100 BC in an area where Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado meet, as well as along the Rio Grande River and upper Pecos valleys of New Mexico; these people were called "cliff dwellers" because they built their houses into cliffs; they were also a farming society
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dwelling
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a home
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caribou
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a large deer that lives in Arctic regions
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kiva
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a large underground room used for ceremonies
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Aztecs
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a civilization believed to have descended from Toltec and nomadic ancestors; the capital of their society was located near present-day Mexico City; around AD 1200, they ruled a large kingdom in what is now central and southern Mexico
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religious
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relating to a belief in a higher being
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glacier
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a large body of slowly melting, slowly moving ice
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canal
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a human-made waterway
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Cahokia
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an area near present-day Collinsville, Illinois that was a major trade center for the Mississippians; where Middle Mississippians built Monks Mound, a structure that was 100 feet high, covered 16 acres of land, and was the largest object build of earth north of Mesoamerica
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mesa
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a flat-topped height
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settlement
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a place or region newly settled
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artisan
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a skilled worker
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Incas
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a civilization in southern Peru about 10,000 BC which later spread include all of present-day Peru, parts of Ecuador on the north and parts of Chile and Argentina on the south
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burial
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the act of burying the dead
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Mesoamerica
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the area of land that includes what is now present-day Mexico and other countries south of Mexico through Costa Rica
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Mayans
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a large civilization in Mesoamerica about AD 250; covered the present-day areas of Belize, parts of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Mexico; civilization lasted for at least 600 years; its people were masters in astronomy and architecture
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archaelogist
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one who studies the remains of past human life
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ritual
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the actions that take place during a ceremony
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astronomy
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the study of space and the planets
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irrigation
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a system for watering crops that uses canals or ditches of water
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Clovis point
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a finely flaked stone spearhead
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totem pole
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a tall, colorful carved object that had a certain religious meaning
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Beringia
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a thousand-mile-wide land bridge that once connected Siberia to Alaska
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descendent
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one who comes from a group of people
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architect
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a person skilled in designing buildings
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cotton
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a plant used to make cloth
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cultivate
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to grow crops
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civilization
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a high level of cultural development
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hieroglyphic
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a system of writing that uses picture-like symbols
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nomads
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people who do not live in one place; wanderers
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Plains Indians
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originally nomadic peoples who did later develop villages and trade with others
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theory
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a best guess
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