Lesson 1: Civilizations
This is the type of society where people travel from place to place in search of animals to hunt, fish to catch, and fruit and nuts to collect.
What is a hunter-gatherer society?
This is the vocabulary word where customs or beliefs are passed on from one generation to the next.
What is "tradition".
This is the vocabulary word for "a system for making rules and decisions."
What is "government"?
This is the vocabulary word for "land and bodies of water of a place, which may vary".
What is "geography"?
This is the cultural region in North America where the Iroquois, Huron, Algonquin, and Creek Native Americans lived. It was filled with trees, animals, and water. It is located in the Northeast part of our country.
What is the Woodland region?
This is vocabulary word for when people moved to other areas for better climate, food, or resources.
What is to migrate?
Men or women? Which one had the traditional family roles of planting crops, gathering seeds, nuts, fruit, cared for the children, cooked, cleaned, and made clothing?
Who are the women?
This is a decision making body that can be made up of a group's single leader or a small group of leaders.
What is a council?
This is the vocabulary word for "the weather in a place over time".
What is "climate"?
This is the cultural region where the Lakota, Pawnee, and Crow natives lived. It was filled with flat land, little rainfall, and animals like bison to follow and hunt.
What is the Great Plains region?
This is the vocabulary word for "people who move within a specific region to follow herds for animals and collect food".
What are "nomads"
This is the game which was created by Native Americans which is still played today.
What is lacrosse?
What is a confederacy?
This is when scientific knowledge or tools are utilized to do work.
What is technology?
This cultural region was where many homes were made out of adobe. The climate was warm with little rainfall. Tribes such as the Pueblo, Navajo, and Hopi lived here.
What is the Southwest region?
This is the direction in which Native tribes travelled looking for a warmer climate and more food.
What is south or south east.
This is the vocabulary term for "a relative who lived in the past".
Who is an "ancestor".
This is the vocabulary term for a "system by which a group makes, shares, and uses goods".
What is an "economy"?
This is when water is brought from nearby rivers to people's crops.
What is irrigation?
This is the planting and growing crops.
What is agriculture?
This is the civilization which utilized a floating garden system to modify their environment and bring water to their crops.
Who were the Aztecs?
This is the name of the doll which Hopi people used to teach their religion.
What are kachina dolls?
This is when a system of routes are created to help connect different areas.
What is a trading network?
There are organized systems of government, religion and learning.
What are civilizations?
This are the two main ideas of the chapter...they influence the way different Native American cultures live, the resources they had, and almost very part of their life.
What are the geography and climate?