Loose associations who work together.

Families that are traced through the mother’s side. Children are given the mother’s last name. Women run the household and make important decisions concerning the family.

Periods into which historians divide the past.

Portable huts constructed from bent poles covered with animal skins and reed mats.

The period of time before people kept written records.

Wild offspring of the horses the Spanish brought to the Americas.

People who hunt wild animals and gather plants for food.

Region marking the farthest edge of settlement by a country or group of people

Planting different crops on a plot of land each year.