| A | B |
|---|
| levers | straight bars used to move or lift things |
| clan | a group of families with the same ancestors |
| isolated | living separate from others |
| origins | beginnings |
| pre-Columbian | the time before Columbus came to the Americas in 1492 |
| hieroglyphics | symbols and pictures that stand for words in ancient Egypt |
| balsa | a soft, light wood |
| Inca | Indian tribes that ruled Peru before the Spanish conquered them |
| colonized | set up land separate from, but under the control of, another country |
| cultivate | to grow crops |
| oral | spoken |
| Captain James Cook | British explorer, navigator, and cartographer |
| cartographer | a person who makes maps |
| Polynesians | native people of the many islands in the south Pacific Ocean |
