Unit 3 Vocabulary

a type of brick made of a mixture of mud and straw 

that is dried by the sun

• Matrilineal

• Adobe

• Wigam

• teepee

countries that support and help other countries in a war; a person or group that gives help to another person or group

• adobe

• confederacies

• Allies

• wigwams

a simple object (such as a tool or weapon) that was made by people in the past

• adobe

• wigwam

• artifact

• prehistory

a group of people or animals

• band

• confederacies

• allies

• adobe

a part of the Great Plains, including portions of northern and western Texas, which was controlled by the Comanche Indians

• band

• confederacies

• Comancheria

• allies

groups of people, countries, organizations, etc., that are joined together in some activity or effort

• confederacies

• band

• allies

• wigwam

a system of growing different types of crops on the same piece of land over a period of years; changing the crops planted 

each year helps keep the soil from wearing out

• crop rotation

• confederacies

• band

• allies

a member of a group of people who move from place to place instead of living in one place all the time

• allies

• nomads

• confederacies

• band

the period of time in the past before people could write; the time before history was written down

• nomads

• prehistory

• artifact

• band

a tent that is shaped like a cone and that was used in the past by some Native Americans as a house.

• wigwam

• teepee

• artifact

• prehistory