| A | B |
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| culture | the total way of life followed by a group of people |
| cultural borrowing | adopting goods or practices form another culture and altering them to fit within your culture |
| economic system | the organized way in which a culture decides what and how much will be produced and how it will be distributed |
| technology | tools, methods, and skills used by a culture to produce goods and services |
| archaeologist | scientist who studies past cultures and their artifacts |
| hunter-gatherers | name given to the earliest human cultures |
| domesticate | plants or animals that depend on humans for protection and care |
| agriculture | herding of animals and farming the land |
| nomad | people who wander from place to place and have no permanent homes |
| urban | having to do with cities |
| artisan | skilled worker who makes things by hand |
| scribe | people who made a living by writing letters and business contracts for merchants and other people |
| colony | territory, settlement, or country governed by another country |
| capital | money used to start or operate a business |
| Industrial Revolution | the change from hand made to machine made goods |
| habitat | a particular physical environment in which certain plants and animals grow or live naturally |
| culture region | an area where people's ways of living are similar |
| bronze | a mixture of copper and tin used to make weapons and household items |
| Indians | name Columbus gave to the inhabitants of the Americas |
| steel | metal important in helping the Industrial Revolution to take hold |
