| A | B |
|---|
| agriculture | farming, or growing plants |
| clan | a group of related families |
| irrigation | supplying water to crops with streams, ditches, or pipes |
| nomad | a person who moves around and does not live in one place |
| glacier | huge, thick sheet of slowly moving ice |
| migration | movement from one region to another |
| civilization | group of people living together who have systems of gov't, religion, and culture |
| Berengia | land bridge formed during the Ice Age |
| Two continents connected by Berengia | Asia and North America |
| strait | narrow channel of water that connects two larger bodies of water |
| Bering Strait | strait now covering Berengia |
| pueblo | Spanish word for town |
| Paleo-Indians | ancient Americans who spread across North and South America following migrating herds |
| ancestors | relatives who lived before you |
| adapt | to change a way of life to fit an environment |
| corn, beans, squash | first crops of Paleo-Indians |
| mounds | giant hills made to bury dead, build temples on, or use for flood protection |
| Adena, Hopewell, Mississippians | among earliest people to create complex villages in N. America |
| Cahokia | one of most famous Mississippian sites in Illinois |
| Ancient Pueblo | Native American group who lived in what is now the Southwest |
| kiva | underground rooms used for religious ceremonies and meetings |
| Tenochtitlan | Aztec capital city built on an island |
| Warriors who made human sacrifices to their gods | Aztecs |
| possible reasons Pueblo left villages | lack of rain or warfare with Navajo and Apache |
