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| A cold period marked by episodes of extensive glaciation alternating with episodes of relative warmth. |
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| A huge mass of ice slowly flowing over a land mass, formed from compacted snow |
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| An object produced or shaped by human craft, especially a tool, weapon, or ornament of archaeological or historical interest. |
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| A term applied to wild animals that are deemed suitable for human consumption, such as deer, elk, moose, reindeer, caribou. |
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Before the Common Era
(The period coinciding with the Christian era). |
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No longer existing or living: an extinct species.
No longer burning or active: an extinct volcano. |
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| Mollusks (shell fish) Mussels are often found attached to rocky surfaces or the sides of ships. |
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| A person from whom one is descended, especially if more remote than a grandparent; a forebear. |
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| Person who makes a study of past human life and culture by the recovery and examination of remaining material evidence, such as graves, buildings, tools, and pottery. |
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| A neck of land that connects two landmasses; an isthmus. |
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| A group migrating (moving) together. |
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| History of humankind in the period before recorded history. |
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| A region politically controlled by a distant country; a group of emigrants or their descendants who settle in a distant territory but remain subject to or closely associated with the parent country. |
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| landholder in New Netherland who, under Dutch colonial rule, was granted rights to a large tract of land in exchange for bringing 50 new settlers to the colony. |
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| Beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts, formerly used by certain Native American peoples as currency |
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| In the New Netherlands a schout was a position combining the responsibilities of a sheriff, prosecutor, and civil court magistrate |
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| One that exercises authority, especially in a nation or colony, such as a king, queen, or other noble ruler or monarch. |
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| An army composed of ordinary citizens rather than professional soldiers. |
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| Red Coat is a term used to refer to a soldier of the historical British Army, because of the red colour of the military uniforms they wore. |
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| Loyalists were colonials who took the British side during the American Revolution |
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| German soldiers paid by the British forces to fight in the Revolutionary War. The 29, 000 Hessians represented about one-third of all British forces in America. |
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| when the people of one goverment overthrow it and replace it with another. |
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Open rebellion against
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| An outbreak of a contagious disease that spreads rapidly and widely. |
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| A narrow stretch of water separating Alaska from Siberia and connecting the Arctic Ocean with the Bering Sea. |
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Bergen was a stockaded Dutch village established before 1620 and had New
Jersey's first municipal government and church (Dutch Reformed) |
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| A primary source is a document, speech, or other sort of evidence written, created or otherwise produced during the time under study such as autobiographies, diaries, e-mail, interviews, letters, minutes, news film footage, official records, photographs, speeches, works in the Arts. |
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| A primary source is a document, speech, or other sort of evidence written, created or otherwise produced during the time under study such as autobiographies, diaries, e-mail, interviews, letters, minutes, news film footage, official records, photographs, speeches, works in the Arts. |
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| A SECONDARY SOURCE is a secondhand account about people, events, topics or places that is based on what some other writer has experienced. Good examples of SECONDARY SOUCES are books, newspapers, pamphlets, encylopedias and other materials in which information has been gathered for you |
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