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Vocabulary
Mission #1Prehistory and Native American History before
European Contact(30,000 B.C. – A.D. 1492)
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Radiocarbon Dating
• Definition: – Method of determining how old biological objects are by
measuring the radioactivity left in a special type of carbon.
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Ice Age
• Definition: – A period of
extremely cold temperatures when part of the planet’s surface was covered with massive ice sheets.
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glacier
• Definition:– A huge ice sheet.
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Nomad
• Definition: – A person who continually moves from place to
place, usually in search of food.
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Agricultural Revolution
• Definition: – Period when early Americans learned how to plant
and raise crops.
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maize
• Definition: – One of the first crops grown by early Americans,
known today as corn.
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civilization
• Definition: – A highly organized
society marked by knowledge of trade, government, the arts, science, and, often, written language.
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obsidian
• Definition: – A dark glass formed by the cooling of molten lava.
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kiva
• Definition:– Circular ceremonial room built by the Anasazi.
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Pueblo
• Definition: – Spanish for village, term used by early Spanish
explorers to denote large housing structures built by the Anasazi.
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kachina
• Definition:– A good spirit that the Pueblo people believed
brought messages from the gods to their town each year.
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Slash-and-burn agriculture
• Definition:– Farming technique in which land is cleared and
made fertile by cutting down and burning forests.
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longhouse
• Definition: – Large, rectangular building with barrel-shaped
roofs covered in bark, used by some Native Americans.
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wigwam
• Definition: – Conical or dome-shaped dwelling built by Native
Americans using bent poles covered with hides or bark.
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Kinship group
• Definition:– Large group of extended families.
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Feudalism
• Definition:– Political system in
which powerful leaders gave land to nobles in exchange for pledges of loyalty and service.
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manorialism
• Definition:– Economic system in which peasants provide
services to a feudal lord in exchange for protection.
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Renaissance
• Definition:– French for rebirth, a
period in Europe from 1350 to 1600 during which a rebirth of interest in the culture of ancient Greece and Rome occurred.