1st PEOPLE
AZTECS, INCAS AND MAYANS
IROQUOIS
NAT. AMERICAN TRIBES
NAT. AMERICAN TERMS
100
The strip of land the first Americans used to "cross" into North America.
What is the BERING LAND BRIDGE
100
Part of the Americas where the Mayans and Aztecs would have been found.
What is CENTRAL AMERICA
100
Term Iroquois gave corn, beans and squash
What is THE THREE SISTERS
100
Group of Native Americans who hunted buffalo, lived in tepees and wore animal skin clothing.
What is the GREAT PLAINS tribes
100
Way of life developed by a people
What is CULTURE
200
Items archeologists would study to learn about the first Americans (3 examples)
What is ARROWHEADS, BITS OF POTTERY, and ANIMAL BONES
200
Present day area where the Aztec civilization would have been located.
What is MEXICO
200
The official name of the Iroquois form of government
What is THE IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY
200
Group found in modern day New York, grew crops, hunted small woodland animals, fished in local streams and gathered berries.
What is the EASTERN WOODLANDS
200
Archeologists use these items to help them learn about the past...
What are ARTIFACTS
300
The earliest people settled in different parts of North and South America and this led to different cultures because....
What is THEY HAD TO ADAPT TO THEIR DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS AND USE THE RESOURCES THEY HAD AROUND THEM
300
Of the Aztecs or the Incas, the group who was VERY advanced in building techniques and medicine.
What is the INCAS
300
The Iroquois ADAPTED to their physical environment by building their homes this way....
What is BUILD LONGHOUSES MADE FROM WOOD AND BARK
300
Tribe lived in Arctic region, lived in Igloos and relied heavily on fish, whales and seals for food.
What is THE ARCTIC / INUITS
300
A female dominated society
What is MATRIARCHY
400
Term used for sundried brick used to build Native American homes in the southwest.
What is ADOBE
400
An ADAPTATION made by the Native American tribes in the southwest when they built their homes.
What is the use of ADOBE (sundried bricks) to build their houses.
400
The place where, according to the Iroquois Creation Myth, the Earth was created on...
What isTHE BACK OF A TURTLE
400
The Iroquois lived in this culture region.
What is THE EASTERN WOODLANDS
400
This is the term for tracing your family ancestry through the father's side (NOT what Native Americans did)
What is PATRIARCHY
500
Name of the continent the earliest people came from.
What is ASIA
500
ONE WAY the Mayas, the Aztecs, and the Incas were SIMILIAR.
What is THEY HAD DEVELOPED ADVANCED CIVILIZATIONS BEFORE THE ARRIVAL OF LARG NUMBERS OF EUROPEANS
500
The name of the SIX tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy
What is the SENECA, CAYUGA, ONEIDA, ONONDAGA, MOHAWK and TUSCARORA
500
The Native American tribe where finding food was the MOST DIFFICULT.
What is the ARCTIC or INUITS
500
The BUFFALO were VERY important to this trib/ area for food and for their houses called TEPEES.
What is the PLAINS INDIANS
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