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| method of determining how old biological objects are by measuring the radioactivity left in a special type of carbon (p.13) |
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| a period of extremely cold temperatures when part of the planet's surface was covered with massive ice sheets (p.13) |
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| a huge sheet of ice (p.13) |
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| a person who continually moves from place to place, usually in search of food (pp.13, 425) |
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| period when early Americans learned how to plant and raise crops (p.13) |
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| one of the first crops grown by early Americans, known today as corn (p.14) |
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| a highly organized society marked by knowledge of trade, government, the arts, science, and often, writen language (p.14) |
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| a dark glass formed by the cooling of molten lava (p.14) |
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| circular cerimonial room built by the Anasazi(p.16) |
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| Spanish for village, term used by the early Spanish explorers to denote large housing structures built by the Anasazi (p.16) |
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| a good spirit that the Pueblo people believed brought messages to the gods to their town each year (p.21) |
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| slash-and-burn agriculture |
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| flaming technique in which land is cleared and made fertile by cutting down and burning forests (p.23) |
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| large, rectangular building with barrel-shaped roofs covered in bark, used by some Native Americans (p.23) |
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| conical or dome-shaped dwelleing built by Native Americans using bent poles covered in hides or bark (p.23) |
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| large group of extended families (p.23) |
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| a rolling grassland (p.27) |
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| Muslim place of worship (p.28) |
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| relation to, based on, or tracing decent through the maternal line (p.30) |
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| person bound to a manner (p.33) |
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| French for rebirth, a period in Europe from 1350 to 1600 during which a rebirth of interest in the culture of ancient Greece and Rome occurred (p.36) |
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| device used to determine direction, latitude, and local time (p.36) |
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| sailing ship capable of long-distance exploration (p.37) |
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| north-south line of longitude through the Atlantic Ocean dividing lands in the Americas claimed by Spain and Portugal (p.42) |
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| series of complex societal and environmental interactions between Europe and the Americas begun with Columbus's first voyage (p.43) |
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