CH. 4 VOCABULARY

Day 1

prehistoriccultureextinctionflintcivilization

prehistoric

Before written history

culture

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

extinction

State or condition of no longer existing

flint

A hard stone

civilization

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

Day 2

PictographSocial structureMesoamericaArchaeologistsIndigenous

pictograph

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

Social structure

The way a society is organized

Mesoamerica

An area of ancient civilization in what is now Central America

Mesoamerica….continued

archaeologist

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

indigenous

Native peoples- Where you come from, your homeland

Talk a mile a minute!

Pictograph Social Structure Prehistoric Culture Artifact

Talk a mile a minute…..

Extinction Flint MesoAmerica Archaeologists Civilization

Day 3

ArtifactNomadMatrilinealPemmicandomesticated

Artifact

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

artifact

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

nomad

One who moves from place to place with no permanent home

matrilineal

A society based on female descent

pemmican

Dried meat mixed with nuts and berries

domesticated

Tamed animals

Day 4

BuckskinAdobeTreatiesDescendantsreservation

buckskin

Soft leather made from deerskins

adobe

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

treaties

Contract or agreement between nations or people

descendants

People descended from specific ancestors; offspring

reservation

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

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 ____________.

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.