Vocab
Early People's
Natural Resources
Native American Groups
Short Answer
100
Scientists can learn a great deal about the life of early people living in Americas from this.
What is Artifacts?
100
According to the land Bridge theory, This is the continent that the early people came from.
What is Asia?
100
This was used to group Eastern Woodland peoples as Iroquoian or Algonquian.
What are the languages they spoke?
100
This was the major purpose of the Iroquois League.
What is resolving conflicts among peoples and groups?
100
This natural resource was used to build tepees and this is how they did it.
What are animal skins stretched over wooden poles?
200
This of the Olmecs had a strong influence on the Mayan cities that developed there.
What is culture?
200
This is the main reason that early peoples in the Americas began to live in larger, more settled villages.
What is they developed agriculture?
200
These natural resources was most important to people of Eastern Woodlands and the Northwest Coast.
What is wood?
200
This Southwestern native American group lived in hogans.
Who are the Navajo?
200
This is how the people of the Arctic learned to adapt their shelters to the resources that were available.
What is they used blocks of ice to build igloos.
300
The Native Americans depended on this in order to produce more goods.
What is division of labor?
300
This early civilization in the Americas developed a counting system that included zero?
Who are the Mayan?
300
After water, this was the most important natural resource for the Plains Indians.
What is buffalo?
300
The Native American group lived in tepees and made carriers called travois.
Who are the Plains Indians?
300
This natural resource was used to make longhouses for these 2 Indian groups.
What is wood from trees for the Eastern Woodland and Pacific Northwest.
400
Native Americans often often held these to celebrate a cultural or religious events.
What are ceremonies?
400
This early civilization is considered to be the "more culture" because of its influence on all other civilizations.
What are the Olmecs?
400
Native Americans in the Plateau, Great Basin, and California cultural regions depended on nearby natural resources. But, they formed these to get good they could not make or find themselves.
What are trade networks?
400
This caused the Native Americans living in the Arctic to band together.
What is food was scarce, the families shared seal meat?
400
This is why trees were more important to to the Northwest Coast and the Eastern Woodlands then they were to the Plains Idndians.
What is providing people with wood to make tools, canoes, and longhouses. They were also a source of food. The plains did not have great forests.
500
"This" of many Native American groups depended on the supply of food & other natural resources that helped them meet their needs.
What is economy?
500
This Mound Builder group used their mounds for burial sites and was located in the Ohio River Valley.
What are the Adena?
500
These natural resources helped the Puebloan people bod their homes.
What are clay and straw?
500
This Iroquois Nation had the largest cultural region in the Eastern Woodlands.
What is the Mohawk?
500
These were other resources did the Northwest Coast have that we're important to their economy.
What is salmon and whale?
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