History Unit 1

3. the stage of human social and cultural development and organization that is considered most advanced.
8. a kind of clay used as a building material, typically in the form of sun-dried bricks.
9. an ancient Inca device for recording information, consisting of variously colored threads knotted in different ways.
14. make or form (sloping land) into a number of level flat areas resembling a series of steps.
15. an amount of something left over when requirements have been met; an excess of production or supply over demand.
16. the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.
18. a social division in a traditional society consisting of families or communities linked by social, economic, religious, or blood ties, with a common culture and dialect, typically having a recognized leader.
19. a group of Native Americans living in a small community
20. a deified ancestral spirit in the mythology of the Pueblo people.
21. a raised road or track across low or wet ground.

1. an official agreement intended to resolve a dispute or conflict.
2. Houses a large house in the ground (usually circular) used for shelter
4. a boss or leader
5. Builders a member of a group of prehistoric inhabitants of the Mississippi region who built altar-mounds
6. a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state.
7. Region a region with people who share common cultural characteristics
10. the spreading of something more widely
11. League a league of Iroquois tribes including originally the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca (the Five Nations); after 1722 they were joined by the Tuscarora
12. ceremonial distribution of property and gifts to affirm or reaffirm social status
13. a group of close-knit and interrelated families
17. a huge mass of ice that moves slowly over land.