This means "ancient ones"
Who are the ANASAZI?
Anasazi lived in this area until around 1300 CE.
What is the FOUR CORNERS?
This region was filled with buffalo or bison so the people became nomads and hunters and lived in teepees. Some of the tribes like the Comanche and Dakota used horses.
What is The GREAT PLAINS?
These are people who move from place to place relying on plants and animals in the wild for food.
An advance and complicated society.
What is a civilization?
The Anasazi first homes were homes dug partly in the ground.
What are "pit houses"?
The Hohokam lived in this area around 300 CE (from Mexico) and stayed for millennia.
What is present-day ARIZONA?
This means native to an area.
What is INDIGENOUS?
What is a MIGRATION?
This civilization survived on the coast of Mesoamerica and made giant stone sculptures. 1200 BCE to 400 BCE
Who are the OLMECS?
This is a multi-storied, apartment-like building used by the Anasazi.
What are PUEBLOS?
Where is the 100-foot-high Monk Mound located?
Where is Collinsville, Illinois?
This group of people included the Inuits and Aluets and built IGLOOS to protects themselves from harsh weather.
What is the NORTH?
A period of time when the Earth was covered with ice and snow and the entire oceans were frozen over.
What is an ICE AGE?
This civilization developed in the Mesoamerican rainforest raising crops and building pyramids and temples. They worshiped the sun, stars, and moon and developed a 365-day calendar.
Who were the MAYANS or MAYA CIVILIZATION?
A kind of clay still used for building in the Southwest.
What is ADOBE?
The Mounds Builders created more than 10,000 mounds in this area alone.
What is the OHIO RIVER VALLEY?
The is the home to the descendents of the Anasazi (the HOPI, the ACOMA, and the ZUNI) who continue to grow maize. Around the 1500s, nomadic groups of hunter-gathers arrived.
What is the Land Bridge Theory?
This small group started in the Andes Mountains 1100 CE. Their capital was in what is now PERU.
Who are the INCAS?
The Anasazi built this type of dwelling in the cliff wall and mountainsides.
What are CLIFF DWELLINGS?
Is is believed the Mounds Builders came from this area because their mounds looked like pyramids.
What is MESOAMERICA?
This area was teeming with forests, so tribes such as ALGONQUIN and IROQUOIS tended to be hunters and traders and farmers, and they lived in longhouses made of wood.
Who or where is the NORTHEAST?
A way a society behaves and its systems of beliefs, laws, and customs. The societies developed these after a while.
What are CULTURES?
This a rule or government where the priests are in charge.
What is a THEOCRACY?