S.S. Vocabulary 9/27

A way of life shared by people with similar arts, beliefs, and customs.

• civilization

• gatherer

• culture

• confederation

A society in which ancestry is traced through the mother

• matriarchy

• patriarchy

• oligarchy

• dictator

Tools or other objects made by humans

• irrigation

• migrate

• archeologist

• artifacts

A treeless plain that remains frozen under its top layer of soil

• rainforest

• tundra

• desert

• kayaks

An archeologist is...

• a way of life of a group of people who have a written language, laws, and government

• the practice of bringing water to crops

• a person who looks for bones, tools, and artifacts from people who lived long ago

• the practice of breeding plants or taming animals to meet human needs

To move from one location to another

• irrigate

• migrate

• domestication

• gatherer

First hand information about people and events

• secondary source

• civilization

• culture

• primary source

Domestication is ...

• the practice of bringing water to crops

• to move from one location to another

• the practice of breeding plants or taming animals to meet human needs

• group of nations that have joined together for a purpose

A way of life of a group of people who have a written language, laws and government

• confederation

• civilization

• technology

• gatherer

An alliance of Native American groups in the Eastern Woodlands region

• confederation

• civilization

• matriarchal

• Iroquois Confederacy