| A | B |
|---|
| migration | movement of people or animals from one region to another |
| hunter-gatherers | people who hunted animals and gathered wild plants for food |
| environments | climates and landscapes that surround living things |
| culture | common values & traditions language, gov't, family relationships |
| Bering Land Bridge | strip of land that was exposed during Ice Age could cross into America |
| pueblos | aboveground houses made of heavy clay called adobe |
| kivas | underground ceremonial chambers |
| totems | ancestor or animal spirits on tall wooden poles |
| teepees | cone shaped shelters |
| matrilineal | people traced their ancestry through their mothers, not their fathers |
| Iroquois League | cofederation or alliance of Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga and Seneca |
| Socrates, Aristotle, Plato | Greek philosophers wanted to make people think |
| reason | clear and ordered thinking |
| democracy | form of government in which people rule themselves |
| knights | warriors who fought on horseback |
| Black Death | disease that spread across Europe killing @ 25 million people |
| Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci | the greatest Renaissance artists |
| Johannes Gutenberg | developed printing press |
| joint-stock companies | businesses in which group of people invest together |
| Renaissance | rebirth; period that followed the Middle Ages |
