C   calories- units used to measure the amount of energy produced by food carbohydrates- compounds made by green plants and a principal source of animal food carbonized- something covered with carbon, a chemical element found in coal and other materials Caribbean- a sea between North America and South America characteristic- a quality that is typical or usual helps identifies a person or thing charnel houses- a building in which bodies or bones are kept cherts- quartz rocks that looks like flint chinquapins- edible nut of dwarf chestnut tree cicada- grasshopper-like insect civilization- a stage of human society in which agriculture, government, art, and science are highly developed Clovis Points- fluted spear points made by Paleo Indians found by archeologists at a site near Clovis, New Mexico coincides- to happen at the same time conch shells- shell covering of a kind of shellfish concubines- a woman living with a man as his mistress in a non-married relationship but one recognized by society confluence- the flowing together of two or more rivers conical- having a cone shape conical depressions- a cone-like hollowed-out place connoisseur- a expert who understands and appreciates an art like wine-making or cooking conquistadures- soldiers from Spain who attacked and conquered Indian societies in the Americans in the 16th century corridor- a narrow strip of land that serves as a passage for travel culturally- having to do with culture culture- all the shared knowledge, expectations, and beliefs of a group of people curvilinear- marked by a curved line