Unit 1 Grade 5 A New World Rising

1. Illustrated Glossary
Unit 1 Grade 5
A New World Rising

2. artifact
usually a simple object such as a tool or ornament showing
human work and representing a culture or a stage in the
development of a culture

3. Caribbean
a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands
and the surrounding coasts
en.wikipedia.org

4. chinampas
small, stationary, artificial islands built on a freshwater
lake to grow crops
anthropogen.com

5. city-state
sillysoft.net
an area that has its own government and consists
of a city and the area around it

6. civilization
www.myanmars.net
the stage of human social development and organization
that is considered most advanced

7. codex
www.tafoya.ws
the first kind of book made up of a number of sheets of paper
or papyrus, hand-written, usually stacked and bound by fixing
one edge and with covers thicker than the sheets

8. creation myth
symbolic narrative of how the world began and how
people first came to inhabit it
http://mesosyn.com/myth-1-13.jpg

9. culture
the characteristic features of everyday life shared by people in
a particular place or time
www.wfu.edu

10. environment
www.arnotts.co.nz
whole complex of factors such as soil, climate, and living things that
influence the form and the ability to survive of a plant, animal, or
human being

11. glyphs
en.wikipedia.org
symbolic figures or a characters (as in the Mayan
system of writing) usually cut in or carved in relief

12. hieroglyphics
www.ancientscripts.com
a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters

13. hypothesis
something not yet proved but assumed to be true for
purposes of further study or investigation
conversionxl.com

14. iconography
maradawn.com
the images or symbols related to something (in this case lunch)

15. irrigation
nrcca.cals.cornell.edu
bringing in water to the land to help plants grow

16. land bridge
an isthmus or wider land connection between otherwise
separate areas, over which animals, plants, and human
beings are able to cross

17. Mesoamerica
simple.wikipedia.org
the geographic region extending approximately from
central Mexico to Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador,
Honduras, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica.

18. migration
moving from one country, place, or locality to another
usopenborders.com

19. North America
www.learninggamesforkids.com
a region that includes Canada and the United States

20. Paleo-Indians
georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu
name given to the first peoples who entered, and
subsequently lived, in the American continents
during the final glacial periods

21. quipu
en.wikipedia.org
an ancient Inca device for recording information,
consisting of colored threads knotted in different ways
the-inca-block-d.wikispaces.com

22. South America
a continent and region of the Western Hemisphere southeast
of North America and has much of it south of the Equator
www.projectvisa.com

23. terracing
www.inspirationgreen.com
make or form sloping land into a number of level areas
resembling a series of steps to create a flat area to farm