1. Adaptation
How something has changed to fit its environment

2. Artifacts
A object made by a human such as a tool

3. Archaeologists Studies man made evidence left by earlier people.
Might look at artifacts found at an old Iroquois village site.

4. Economics Study of how people meet their needs and wants.
Might look at how people acquired the food they eat.

5. Geography Studies land and resources of a region.
Might look at why a group settled near the Genesee River.

6. Political Science Studies how people govern themselves.
Might look at why the United states elected a president.

7. Columbian Exchange
The exchange of goods and ideas between the Old World and the New World

8. Colony
People who settle in a distant land but are still ruled by their native land

9. confederation
A loose grouping of states or colonies that join together to rule an area.

10. Culture
Total way of life of a group of people including food, clothing, music etc.

11. Environment
The total surroundings of an are including physical, cultural and social conditions

12. Glacier
Chunk of Ice

13. Government
The rulers of the country or an area.

14. Haudenosaunee
People of the longhouse (Iroquois called themselves)

15. indigenous
Original inhabitants of an area

16. longhouse
The home of the woodland Iroquois people

17. Native Americans
First settlers that came across on a land bridge

18. Northwest Passage
Never existed!!! Passage through or around North America

19. patroon
Owner of a huge estate in the Dutch colony of New Netherlands

20. Physical regions
Areas that are similar in geography

21. Pre-Columbian
Americas before the arrival of Columbus

22. Primary sources
An account from someone that was actually there

23. Secondary Sources
An account of an event from somebody who was not actually there.

24. tribe
Community of people that share common culture, language and rituals