| A | B |
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| citizen | a member of a town or city |
| primary sources | records made by people who participated in an event |
| secondary sources | records made by people who did not participate in an event |
| oral history | tell the experiences of people who did not have a written language |
| chronology | events are told in the order in which they happened |
| historical empathy | understanding the actions and feelings of people from other times and places |
| perspective | a point of view or way of thinking about things |
| analyzing | a way of thinking in which you break something down into its parts and look closely at how they relate to each other |
| absolute location | exact location, like the name of your town or home address |
| relative location | when you describe a location by telling what is around it, like near the post office |
| physical features | landforms, bodies of water, climate, soil are examples of this |
| human features | buildings, bridges, farms, roads are examples of this |
| regions | areas on the Earth whose features make them different from other areas are called this |
| economy | the ways that a country's people use the country's resources to meet their needs |
| migration | movement |
| glaciers | huge sheets of ice |
| band | a small group of people who work together to do things |
| nomads | wanderers who have no settled home |
| theory | explanation |
| culture | way of life |
| artifacts | objects that early people left behind |
| evidence | proof |
| origin stories | stories that tell of peoples' beliefs about the world and their place in it |
| technology | the use of scientific knowledge or tools to do something |
| extinct | dying out |
| agriculture | farming |
| maize | corn |
| religion | beliefs about God or gods |
| tribe | a group of people with a shared culture and land |
| surplus | more of something than is needed |
| specialize | work on one job so you know it and do it well |
| time line | a diagram that shows the events that took place during a certain period of time |
| decade | 10 years |
| century | 100 years |
| millennium | 1,000 years |
| civilization | a culture that has well-developed forms of government, religion, and learning |
| temples | places of worship |
| pyramid | a building with 3 or more sides shaped like triangles |
| cultural diffusion | when culture spreads to other places |
| earthworks | hills of earth built by one of many anchient civilizations known as Mound Builders |
| pueblos | Spanish word for "town" or "village" |
| adobe | a kind of sandy clay that can be dried into bricks |
| mesas | high, flat topped hills |
| drought | a long dry spell |
| kivas | special underground rooms where religious ceremonies were held by the Anasazi |
