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Bering Land Bridge | Strip of land connecting Alaska with Russia during the last ice age. |
Culture | Common values and traditions of a society. |
Environments | Climates and landscapes that surround living things. |
Hunter-Gatherers | People who hunt animals and gather wild plants to provide for their needs. |
Migration | Movement of people from one region to another. |
Paleo-Indians | The first Americans who crossed from Asia into North America. |
Totems | Images of ancestors or animals. |
Democracy | Form of government in which the people rule themselves. |
Joint Stock Companies | Businesses formed by a group of people who jointly share an investment and share in the profits and losses. |
Kivas | Underground ceremonial chambers. |
Matrilineal | Ancestry traced through mothers side. |
Mosques | Buildings for Muslim prayer. |
Pueblos | Above ground houses made of a heavy clay called adobe. |
Reason | Clear and ordered thinking. |
Knights | Warriors who fought on horseback in return for land from nobles. |