1. CH. 4 VOCABULARY

2. Day 1 prehistoric culture extinction flint civilization

3. prehistoric Before written history

4. culture The pattern of knowledge, beliefs, behaviors, and traits that characterize a group of people

5. extinction State or condition of no longer existing

6. flint A hard stone

7. civilization A culture with a complex social structure and developments such as cities, trade, government, art, writing, and science

8. Day 2 Pictograph Social structure Mesoamerica Archaeologists Indigenous

9. pictograph A painting or a drawing on a rock wall left by ancient or prehistoric peoples

10. Social structure The way a society is organized

11. Mesoamerica An area of ancient civilization in what is now Central America

12. Mesoamerica….continued

13. archaeologist A person who studies historic or prehistoric peoples and their cultures by analyzing their artifacts

14. indigenous Native peoples- Where you come from, your homeland

15. Talk a mile a minute!  Pictograph  Social Structure  Prehistoric  Culture  Artifact

16. Talk a mile a minute…..  Extinction  Flint  MesoAmerica  Archaeologists  Civilization

17. Day 3 Artifact Nomad Matrilineal Pemmican domesticated

18. Artifact  An object/ something that tells us about the past. It gives us clues as to what happened in earlier times.

19. artifact Any object made by human beings (Example- Mayan Calendar)

20. nomad One who moves from place to place with no permanent home

21. matrilineal A society based on female descent

22. pemmican Dried meat mixed with nuts and berries

23. domesticated Tamed animals

24. Day 4 Buckskin Adobe Treaties Descendants reservation

25. buckskin Soft leather made from deerskins

26. adobe A brick or other building material made of sun-dried earth and straw

27. treaties Contract or agreement between nations or people

28. descendants People descended from specific ancestors; offspring

29. reservation A tract of public land set apart for the use of American Indian people

30. Vocabulary Sentences 1. Native Americans made their arrowheads from ______. 2. Today the Tigua live on a ______ near El Paso. 3. The whites signed ______ with the Indians, but often broke them. 4. Some native groups ___________dogs to drag their belongings from place to place. 5. Plains Indians ate a dried, preserved food called ____________.

31. Vocabulary Sentences  6. Comanche women wore finely decorated _________dresses.  7. Some Indians lived as ___________ following the buffalo or looking for new food supplies.  8. ______________painted by ancient Texans have been found in caves in West Texas.  9. Two great empires, the Maya and the Aztec, thrived in _________________.  10. Some animals were hunted to _____________ and no longer exist.