Era 1.1 Vocabulary

Communities of people who move from place to place, relying on plants and animals found in the wild for food.

• Nomadic hunter-gatherers

• Migration

• Mesoamerica

The movement of a number of people (or animals), often to establish a new homeland

• Migration

• Culture

• Society

• Nomadic Hunter-Gatherers

The area now called Central America

• Mesoamerica

• Asia

• South America

• North America

The way a society behaves and its system of beliefs, laws, and customs

• Culture

• Society

• Civilization

• Theocracy

A group of people living together as a group

• Society

• Civilization

• Migration

• Culture

An advanced and complicated society

• Civilization

• Society

• Theocracy

• Adobe

Rule by god(s); government where the priests are in charge

• Theocracy

• Adobe

• Migration

• Mesoamerica

Means “Ancient ones”

• Anasazi

• Adobe

• Society

• Theocracy

A kind of clay still used for building in the Southwest

• Adobe

• Anasazi

• Society

• Culture

Poles created by Native Americans by carving and painting representations of ancestor or animal spirits on long pieces of wood.

• Totem Poles

• Crusades

• Immunity

• Adobe