Coming to North America
People left this part of the world to come to the Americas.
What is Asia?
The name of the river that surrounds Montreal.
What is the St-Lawrence River?
The Iroquois hunted and gathered. But, they also did this to get food.
What is farmed?
Name of the Iroquoian village that is now known as Montreal.
What is Hochelaga?
The country that first claimed the land of Montreal.
What is France?
The reason people moved from Asia to the Americas.
What is to follow the animals they were hunting?
Two reasons the First Nations moved south once they reached the Americas.
What is warmer climate and more plants/animals for food?
The spiritual name they gave corn, beans and squash.
What is "The Three Sisters"?
Name of the permanent homes the Iroquois lived in.
What are longhouses?
The name of the explorer who arrived in 1535.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
The number of years ago that the first people crossed over to the Americas.
What is 12, 000 years ago?
What is a travel route, fresh water, a warm climate and fertile land?
Three ways the Iroquois stored and preserved food.
What is by smoking, drying and burying in the ground?
The gender that would choose the chief.
What is female/women?
The object that was placed on the mountain by Jacques Cartier.
What is a cross?
The type of lifestyle where people move from place to place instead of living in one spot.
What is nomadic?
This is the lifestyle the Iroquois followed. It means they stayed in one place for long periods of time.
What is sedentary?
These were seen as signs from the spirits.
What are dreams?
What is a palisade?
The name that was given to the mountain above Hochelaga by Cartier.
What is "Mont-Royal"?
The name of the area that was frozen over so that First Nations people could cross over to the Americas.
What is the Bering Strait?
The meaning of the name Hochelaga.
What is "big rapids"?
Four inventions of the Iroquois.
What are snowshoes, maple syrup, canoes, cradle boards, woven baskets, weapons and mortar and pestle?
The people who conducted religious ceremonies to show thanks to the spirits.
Who are the "Keepers of the Faith"?
The action of settling among a group of indigenous (First Nations) people and establishing control over their area.
What is colonization?