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| People who move from place to place |
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| Women collect nuts, berries, wild plants, and bird eggs. Men went on extended hunts. |
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| villages and farming utilized |
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| the first mesoAmerican society 1200 BC in tropical lowlands |
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| cities with religious centers w/ pyramids, palaces, temples, and sacred ball courts. decorated buildings warriors gods jaguars |
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| Known for skills as warriors, artisans, and builders. there influence can be seen throughout architecture (AD 400) |
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| power shifted to aztec in 1400's.Built capitol (tenochitian) supplied food to growing cities |
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| rose to power in the Andes mountains. Built vast empire connected by roads and bridges. largest empire (12 million) |
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| when spaniards arrived in the 1500s, this is what they called buildings, meaning towns |
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| small farming villages w/ groups of people related by blood |
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| skilled woodworkers. Native americans in the Northwest coast |
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| Several Native American nations (mohawks and oneidas) war over territory but shared language culture etc |
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| iroquois lived in large villages surrounded by palisades (walls of wood poles) |
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| most clans organized based off this |
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| property inherited through mother |
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| in hunter and gatherer groups people had certain tasks |
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| exchange goods without using money |
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| people believed to have spiritual healing powers |
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| a religion founded by prophet Muhammad |
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| History passed down by storytellers |
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| people were loyal to their clan with the same ancestry |
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| mesoAmerican agriculture (small, rectangular areas of fertile arable land to grow crops on the shallow lake beds |
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| farming method that involves the cutting and burning of plants to create a field |
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| mutual hostility between two groups (ancestors of the enemy) |
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| emperor, military commander, and political reformer of d=Songhai empire |
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| scandinavian, seafaring pirates, traders who raided and settled in new europe |
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| italian explorer, navigator, and consist completed 4 voyages across the atlantic ocean |
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| Arawak people who inhabited the greater Antilles and Bahamas |
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| Norse explorer from iceland. first european to set foot in North America |
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| process of settling among and establishing control over over the indigenous people |
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| transfer of plants, animals,culture,huma population, technology,diseases, and the ideas between America, west Africa,and the old world. |
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