Chapter 1 Terms and Names

having no fixed home, moving from place to place according to seasons and availability of food and water

• nomadic

• kinship

• hierarchy

• colonization

the ties between members of a family

• lineage

• kinship

• colonization

• savanna

a social ordering by rank of class

• plantation

• kinship

• hierarchy

• nomadic

a group of people descended from a common ancestor

• hierarchy

• colonization

• nuclear family

• lineage

a Native American people whose civilization flourished in what is now southern Mexico in the period 1200–400 b.c.

• Inca

• Maya

• Pueblo

• Olmec

a Native American people whose civilization flourished in Guatemala and the Yucatán Peninsula between about a.d. 250 and 900.

• Aztec

• Hohokam

• Maya

• Anasazi

a Native American people that settled in the Valley of Mexico in the 1200s a.d. and later developed a powerful empire

• Olmec

• Aztec

• Iroquois

• Pueblo

a Native American people that around a.d. 1400 created an empire reaching nearly 2,500 miles along the west coast of South America

• Inca

• Kwakiutl

• Adena

• Songhai

the assignment of different tasks and responsibilities to different groups or individuals

• hierarchy

• colonization

• division of labo

• plantation

a large farm on which the labor of slaves or other workers is used to grow a single crop, such as sugar cane or cotton

• colonization

• nomadic

• savanna

• plantation