| A | B |
|---|
| Migrations | a movement of people from one place to another |
| Glacier | a huge sheet of ice |
| Band | a small group of people who work together to do activities |
| Nomad | a wanderer who has no settled home |
| Theory | a possible explanation for something |
| Culture | a people's way of life |
| Archaeologist | a scientist who studies the cultures from people from long ago |
| Artifact | an object that early people had made |
| Evidence | proof |
| Origin story | a story that tells of people's beliefs about the world and their place in it |
| Technology | the use of scientific knowledge or tools to make or do something |
| Extinct | no longer living, like a kind of animal that has died out |
| Agriculture | farming |
| Maize | corn |
| Religion | beliefs about God or gods |
| Tribe | a group made up of many bands of people with a shared culture and land |
| Surplus | more than is needed |
| Specialize | to work at only one kind of job |
| Civilization | a culture that has developed forms of government, religion, and learning |
| Temple | a place of worship |
| Pyramid | a building with three or more triangle-shaped sides that slant toward a point at the top |
| Cultural diffusion | an area where peoples share some ways of life |
| Earthwork | a mound, or hill of earth, that people have built |
| Pueblo | a group of adobe houses that the Anasazi and other Pueblo peoples lived in |
| Adobe | a mixture of sand and straw that is dried into bricks |
| Mesa | a high, flat-topped hill |
| Drought | a long dry spell |
| Kiva | a special underground room where the Anasazi held religious services |
