Early Encounters

2. the condition that exists when people have developed effective ways of organizing a society.
3. agricultural process of applying controlled amounts of water to land to assist in the production of crops
6. ceremonial distribution of property and gifts to affirm or reaffirm social status
8. developed a hieroglypic writing system and created a calendar
10. and burn agriculture a farming method that involves the cutting and burning of plants in a forest or woodland to create a field
11. relating to descendants traced through the mother
13. geography refers to the physical characteristics of a region
14. perspective when you examine how geography affects people and culture

1. to move from place to place
4. a major zone of treeless level or rolling ground found in cold regions
5. to raise plants and animals for human benefit and consumption
7. geography examines how people and their cultures are affected by physical geography, and how human activities affect the environment
9. indigenous people of Pacific Northwest in North America
12. a person who studies human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains