Glossary

Wide-ranging knowledge and appreciation many parts of the world arising from urban life and wide travel

• sophisticated

• sopisticated

• sofisticatied

The matter from which a thing is or can be made

• material

• mineral

• copper

A type of coat that has no sleeves, fastens at neck, and hangs loosely from the shoulders, worn especially in the past

An expert who studies the past by examining objects that people have left behind.

• archaelogist

• archaeologist

• Historian

• archiologist

Any of a large number of synthetic resins used in making plastics and fibers

marked or decorated with stripes

• striped

• checked

• plain

a fight between armed forces

having short sleeves

• short-sleeve

• short-sleeved

a soft, light, and highly valued fabric developed in China

a fabric made from the hair of sheep