SS Unit 2 Vocab. Lessons 4-6

contains things necessary for growth and health

• nutritious

• earthworks

A large city with huge earthworks

• Lake Charles

• Cahokia

the kinds of food a person eats on a regular basis

• communal

• diet

Shared by all members of the community for common use. (Think about the word community and how this word sounds similar).

• communal

• archeology

A process of settling among the original Indigenous peoples while also trying to take control over them.

• Colonization

• migration

living in the same area throughout the year as opposed to moving around; usually achieved by farming

• sedentary

• communal

very exact, accurate in detail

• kinship

• precise

relation or family

• kinship

• transport

to give up land

• ceded

• sedentary

to take people from one place to another

• transport

• Mississippian period