Out of Many: Chapter 1 Vocab Flashcards
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| 1621594924 | adapt | change to fit new conditions | 0 | |
| 1621594925 | migration | A movement from one country or region to another | 1 | |
| 1621594926 | region | An area in which many features are similar | 2 | |
| 1621594927 | native | a person who was born in a particular place | 3 | |
| 1621594928 | colonization | When a bigger, more powerful country would take control of a smaller or weaker country. | 4 | |
| 1621594929 | urban | related to cities (not the countryside) | 5 | |
| 1621594930 | nomadic | Moving from place to place with no permanent home | 6 | |
| 1621594931 | agriculture | Another word for farming. | 7 | |
| 1621594932 | archaeology | Study of past people and cultures | 8 | |
| 1621617515 | domesticated | not wild: used to living near people, usually on a farm or in a home | 9 | |
| 1621617516 | city-state | A self-governing unit made of a city and its surrounding villages and farmland | 10 | |
| 1621617517 | subsistence | only growing or finding enough food that you need to survive (no extra) | 11 | |
| 1621617518 | hunter-gatherer | People who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive | 12 | |
| 1621617519 | excavate | to carefully dig out an ancient site. | 13 | |
| 1621617520 | route | a way or course taken in getting to a destination | 14 | |
| 1621617521 | settler | A person who makes a home in a new place | 15 | |
| 1621617522 | artifact | An object made or used by people in the past | 16 | |
| 1621617523 | climate | Overall weather in an area over a long period of time | 17 | |
| 1621617524 | forage | The act of searching for food | 18 | |
| 1621617525 | resource | A substance that has value or usefulness. | 19 | |
| 1621617526 | cultivation | production of food by preparing the land to grow crops | 20 | |
| 1621617527 | division of labor | Division of work into a number of separate tasks to be performed by different workers | 21 | |
| 1621617528 | complex | complicated; having many parts | 22 | |
| 1621617529 | population density | A measurement of the number of people per given unit of land. | 23 | |
| 1621617530 | storage | saving something for later | 24 | |
| 1621617531 | irrigation | A way of supplying water to an area of land | 25 | |
| 1621617532 | famine | A time when there is so little food that many people starve. | 26 | |
| 1621617533 | arid | Extremely dry | 27 | |
| 1621617534 | hierarchy | A system of organizing people into ranks, with those of higher rank having more power and privileges | 28 | |
| 1621617535 | communal | Relating to the community; belonging to or shared by the people; public | 29 | |
| 1621617536 | confederacy | A loose union of independent states | 30 | |
| 1621617537 | chiefdom | A political unit of permanently allied tribes and villages under one recognized leader. | 31 |