Ancient Socities' of Americas Academic Vocabualry Flashcards

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Region

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An area with at least one unifying physical or human feature such as climate, landforms, population, or history.

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Human-Environment Interaction

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How people affect their surroundings and how their surroundings affect them.

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Migration

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Mass movement of people from one part of the world to another, often in search for safety, food, and shelter.

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Land bridge

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A connection between two landmasses, especially a prehistoric one that allowed humans and animals to move to new territory before being cut off by the sea, as across the Bering Strait.

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Beringia

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During the Ice Age, a land bridge connected Asia and North America at what is today the Bering Strait.

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Empire

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A large group of territories and people who are ruled by a single supreme leader or nation.

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Irrigation

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The artificial application of water to land. Includes the process of providing water to crop plants in the fields through human efforts by means of canals, wells, reservoirs, etc.

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Mesoamerica

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Indigenous cultures that developed in parts of Mexico and Central America prior to Spanish exploration and conquest in the 16th century.

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Indigenous

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Relating to the earliest known inhabitants of a place that was colonized by a now-dominant group.

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Native

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Being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being.