Early Americans/Mesoamerica
The ancient land bridge that linked Asia to North America during the ice age.
What is Beringia
An underground ceremonial room used by Puebloan mens for religious rituals and meetings
What is a Kiva
Carved cedar logs painted with animal figures to record family legends and history
The main natural resource and animal hunted by the Great Plains Native Americans
What is the Buffalo/Bison
Large bark covered homes that sheltered multiple families in Iroquois villages
What are longhouses
Early humans who survived by collecting wild plants and hunting game
What is Hunter-gatherers
The four US States whose border meet at the 4 corners
What are Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico
A traditional Pacific Northwest feast where hosts give gifts to guest to show status.
Portable cone shaped homes made of bison hides stretched over long wooden poles
What are teepees
Tall wooden stake walls constructed around Woodland villages for security.
What are Pallisades
The three primary crops farmed by the Olmecs and later known as the 3 Sisters
Dirt and log homes built by the Navajo
What are Hogans
Arctic groups that hunted walrus, seals, and whales and lived in igloos and pit houses.
Who are the Inuit
Animals brough by Europeans that enabled Plains tribes to travel long distances and track game.
What are Horses
Two major early cultures that constructed large earthen mounds in the Eastern United States.
Who are the Adena and Hopewell
Picture symbols used in the writing system of the ancient Maya
What are Hieroglyphics
Brush covered wooden frame shelters used by nomadic Apache peoples.
What are Wickiups
Tree materials harvested by Northwest Coast tribes to weave soft clothing
What is Cedar Bark
The natural environment type consisting of flat rolling grassland that covers the Great Plains
What are Prairies and Grasses
Method of farming where trees are cut down and burned to clear land for planting
What is slash and burn
The most critical factor required for small farming villages to grow into advanced civilizations
Food Surplus
Architectural feature built into steep canyon walls by the Ancestral Pueblo.
What are cliff dwellings
The southern Hemisphere animal that was NOT found in the Arctic environment hunted by the Inuit-
What are penguins
Specific part of the buffalo used by the Plains tribes as a flyswatter
What is the tail.
The alliance formed by five Woodland tribes to preserve to clear land for mutual defense
What is the Iroquois Confederacy or League