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| culture | a way of life that people share, including arts, beliefs, and customs. |
| domestication | the practice of breeding plants or taming animals to meet human needs. |
| civilization | civilization has five features: (1) cities that are centers of trade, (2) specialized jobs for different people, (3) organized forms of government and religion, (4) a system of record keeping, and (5) advanced tools. |
| Mound Builders | Native Americans who built large earthen structures as burial mounds and temples. |
| technology | the use of tools and knowledge to meet human needs. |
| slash-and-burn | A method of agriculture where farmers chopped down and then burned trees on a plot of land. The ashes from the fire enriched the soil. |
| agriculture | the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock also known as farming |
| Iroquois League | In the late 1500s, five northern Iroquois nations took the advice of a peace-seeking man named Deganawida. They stopped warring with each other and formed an alliance of the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca native Americans. |
| Mayan | a member of an native American people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between AD 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy; "Mayans had a system of writing and an accurate calendar" |
| Aztecs | Native Americans who created a great civilization in what is now central Mexico. In 1325, they began to build their capital city, Tenochtitlán (teh•NAWCH•tee•TLAHN), on islands in Lake Texcoco. |
| Inca | was an empire that existed in South America from about 1200 |
