Understanding Native, Indigenous, and Empire Concepts

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A large group of territories and people who are ruled by a single supreme leader or nation.

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Empire

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The artificial application of water to land. Includes the process of providing water to crop plants in the fields through human efforts by means of canals, wells, reservoirs, etc.

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Irrigation

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Relating to the earliest known inhabitants of a place that was colonized by a now-dominant groups

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Indigenous

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Being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being

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Native

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The region that covers all the Americas south of the US border- that is, Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean

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Latin America

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This is an area with at least one unifying physical or human feature such as climate, landforms, population, or history

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Region

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Did Northwestern Paleo-Indians adapt to their surroundings to meet their basic needs for survival?

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True

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This is the complex of indigenous cultures that developed in parts of Mexico and Central America prior to Spanish exploration and conquest in the 16th century.

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Mesoamerica

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The first humans to arrive in the Americas came from

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Asia

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How people affect their surroundings and how their surroundings affects them

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Human-Environment Interaction