Mesoamerican/Native American Culture Groups I
What was the term for the system of knotted ropes used by the Inca in lieu of written communication?
Quipu
Which Native American culture group consisted of tribes like the Blackfoot, Sioux, Comanche, Cheyenne, and Crow?
What is the Great Plains Native Americans?
A civilization that lived in the Andes Mountains of South America between about 1300 AD and 1530 AD.
What is the Incas.
A strip of land that connected North America to Asia during the last ice age.
What is the Bering land bridge?
A cone-shaped tent made of buffalo hide and built by the Plains Native Americans for ease of rapid relocation
What is a teepee?
A civilization that lived in Central Mexico between about 1300 AD and 1520 AD.
What is the Aztecs?
A Native American culture group farmed, hunted, used canoes, and were ultimately responsible for the Iroquois Confederacy?
the Eastern Woodlands
A man-made island created by the Aztec and used for farming.
What is a chinampas? (floating garden)
List some of the tribes found in the American Southwest cultural region.
Zuni, Hopi, Pueblo, Apache, and Navajo
Which culture group based their lives and culture primarily around the movements of buffalo herds?
What is the Plains Native Americans?
What did the tribes of the Eastern Woodlands use as lodging?
Longhouses
An Iroquois term for extended family literally meaning a "group of related firesides"
What is a clan?
A system of farming by the Incas in which flat areas (like steps) are carved out of mountainsides for farming.
What is terrace farming?
Who made the 365 day calendar, the number system including 0, and had great harvest of corn?
The Maya
Which Mesoamerican culture was really into conquering other tribes, often sacrificing those that they captured?
The Aztecs
A representative government of the Iroquois; made up of sachems from all 5 tribes.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
A belief of how the first people got to North America.
What is the Bering land bridge theory?
A government in which the people choose leaders to make decisions for them.
What is a representative democracy?
What was the system of agriculture developed by the Maya involving the clearing of rainforests and swamps to enrich the soil?
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Which Mesoamerican tribe developed a system for farming in deep swamps?
Who is the Aztecs?
The entire shared way of life of a group of people.
What is culture?
Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk are part of this.
What are the five tribes of the Iroquois Nation/Confederacy?