Vocabulary
Moving from one place to another.
What is migration?
Where the first people migrated from.
Where is Asia?
3 of the first advanced civilizations in the Americas established before Spanish exploration.
What are the Maya, Aztec, and Inca?
The region the Iroquois were located in.
What is the Eastern Woodlands?
The 5 tribes that made up the Iroquois Confederacy.
Seneca
Cayuga
Oneida
Onondaga
Mohawk
Shared way of life, beliefs, and values; shaped by environment.
What is culture?
The name of the theory of how people came to the Americas.
What is the Migration Theory
The location of the Maya and Aztec civilizations.
What is Mesoamerica?
Present-day Oregon and Washington are located in this region.
What is the Northwest?
The name of the shelter the Iroquois lived in.
Influence of our surroundings on our way of life.
What is environment?
What the first people crossed to North America.
What is the Bering Strait?
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
The location of the Inca civilization.
What is South America?
A shelter made of sun-dried clay called adobe in the Southwest region.
What is a pueblo?
The reason why Hiawatha delivered his speech and said the 5 nations needed to band together as one tribe.
What is they will be stronger as one and defeat the common enemy?
The first peoples who migrated to North America
Who are Paleo-Indians?
3 reasons for migration.
What is
-escape wars
-follow herd of animals/source of food
-in search of a warmer climate
The Maya, Aztec, and Inca civilizations all have different methods of farming. This is an example of...
What is adapting to their environments?
The Pueblos didn't have a major body of water near their civilization, so they had to make their own irrigation system to bring water to them. This shows...
What is Pueblos's adaptation to their environment?
How the Iroquois Confederacy influenced our government.
What is the Founding Fathers adopted the idea of a Republic Government?
Tracing family descent through mother's line.
What is matrilineal?
How the first peoples came to the Americas (with origin of people and geographic feature).
What is during the Ice Age, glaciers formed and ocean levels dropped and exposed a land bridge called the Bering Land Bridge and people from Asia traveled into North America?
Match the farming method to the civilization (Maya/Aztec/Inca):
A. Terrace Farming
B. Slash-And-Burn Farming
C. Chinampas
What is
A. Terrace Farming - Inca
B. Slash-And-Burn - Maya
C. Chinampas - Aztec
The reason why different Native American cultures developed in the Americas.
What is they settled in different regions with different environments?
The Iroquois building their longhouses out of wood is an example of...
What is adaptation to their environment?