EARLY PEOPLE
VOCABULARY
OLMEC, MAYA, MOUND BUILDERS, PUEBLOANS
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OTHER NATIVE AMERICAN GROUPS
100
Land bridge that some believe the early people came across 12,000 of years ago
What is Beringia?
100
Family members who lived before you
What are ancestors?
100
Made it possible for the early people to begin to build villages and cities
What is agriculture?
100
A group of people in a society who have something in common
What is a class?
100
Main resource of the Eastern Woodland Indians
trees
200
Continent that early people who crossed Beringia came from
What is Asia?
200
Movement of people or animals from one place to another
What is migration?
200
Developed a counting system which included the number zero
Who are the Mayans?
200
A way of life or an idea that has been handed down from the past
What is a tradition?
200
What classified the Eastern Woodland Indians as either Iroquois or Algonquian?
their language
300
Way in which these early people got their food
What is hunting and gathering?
300
Objects made by early people and found by later people
What are artifacts?
300
Built their villages on top of their burial graves
Who were the Mound Builders?
300
A group of people with ways of life, religion, and learning
What is a civilization?
300
Major purpose of the Iroquois League
to settle conflicts between people
400
Covering much of the northern hemispher at this time were....
What are glaciers?
400
Stories of early people which explained how they came to be
What are stories of origin?
400
Built their villages out of adobe and against the walls of canyons...got their name from the Spanish word for village
Who are the Pueblo?
400
An area in which people share some ways of life
What is a cultural region?
400
Name the two most important resources of the Plains Indians.
water and buffalo
500
Discovery of this drastically changed the lifestyle of the Early Americans
What is agriculture? (How to plant seeds, farming, etc.)
500
An idea based on study and research. Example: Beringia
What is a theory?
500
Known as the 'mother culture'
What are the Olmec?
500
Dividing up work so that everyone has a special job to do
What is division of labor?
500
Native Americans living in the Arctic banned together to share what when food was scarce?
seal meat
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