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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 |