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History
7th Grade
10/18/2011

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Glacier
Definition
Thick sheet
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Surplus
Definition
Extra
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Causways
Definition
Raised roads made of packed earth
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Culture
Definition
The entireway of life of a people
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Adobe
Definition
Sundried brick
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Peoblos
Definition
the Spanish word for village
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Mound Builderes
Definition
Various cultures that built large earth mounds begining
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Culture Area
Definition
a region in which people who share a similar way of life
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Tribe
Definition
a community of people in which people who share commom customs and language and rituals
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Diffusions
Definition
Process of spreding ideas from one culture to another to another
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Pit House
Definition
Houses dug into the ground and covered with wood and skins
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Potlatch
Definition
Ceremonial dinner
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Kachinas
Definition
Spirits who were represented by masked Native American dancers
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Clan
Definition
a group of two or more related famiies
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League of the Iroquis
Definition
5 Iroquios allianed
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First Global Age
Definition
The Amount of long distance trade and travel incresed
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Sachems
Definition
A council of 50 specially chosen tribal leaders
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Savanna
Definition
A region of grasslands
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Extended Family
Definition
Several genarations live in one household
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Kinship
Definition
Sharing a common ancester
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Quran
Definition
Scared book for Isalm
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City-state
Definition
a large town that has its own government and controls the surrounding contryside
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Salvation
Definition
Everlasting life
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Direct democracy
Definition
a form of government in which ordinary citizens have the power to govern
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Republic
Definition
a system of gvernment in which ordinary citizens choose representatives to govern
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Faudlism
Definition
System of rule by lords who ruled their lands but owed loyalty and military service to a monarch
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Astrolabe
Definition
helped determined their latitude and longitude while at sea
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Crusades
Definition
were a series of wars fought by Christian to control Holyland.
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Renaissance
Definition
A French word rebirth
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