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| culture | Way of life shared by people with similar arts, beliefs, and customs |
| domestication | Practice of breeding plants or taming animals to meet human needs. |
| civilization | Form of culture characterized by city trade centers, specialized workers, organized forms of government & religion, systems of record keeping, & advanced tools. |
| Mound Builders | Early Native American who built large earthen structures. |
| technology | The use of tools and knowledge to meet human needs. |
| slash-and-burn agriculture | Farming method, clear fields by cutting & burning trees & grasses, the ashes of which fertilize the soil. |
| Iroquois League | 16th-century alliance of Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, & Seneca Native American groups living in the eastern Great Lakes region formed by Deganawida. |
| Muslim | Follower of the religion of Islam. |
| Islam | Religion founded by prophet Muhammad in 600s, which teaches that there is 1 God, named Allah.Mansa Musa was a Muslim |
| European Middle Ages | late 400s to 1300s, during which Europeans turned to feudalism & manor system. |
| feudalism | Political system in which the king allows nobles the use of his land in exchange for their military service and their protection of people living on the land. |
| Crusades | Series of wars to capture the Holy Land, launched in 1096 by European Christians. |
| Renaissance | Period of European history, 1300s to 1600, brought increased interest in art and learning. |
| Reformation | 16th-century religious movement to correct problems in the Roman Catholic Church.1. Martin Luther’s 95 statements that criticized certain practices of the Roman Catholic Church |
| navigator | Person who plans the course of a ship while at sea. |
| caravel | Ship with triangular sails that allowed it to sail into the wind & with square sails carried it forward when wind was at its back. |
