Geography
What is Geography?
The Study of PER (People, Environment, and Resources) and how the three interact.
How did the First Native Americans arrive to America?
They crossed the Bering Land Bridge that formed during the Ice Age between Siberia (East Asia) and Alaska, which allowed for people to cross from Asia by foot.
Which region did the Iroquois live in?
The Northeastern Woodlands. Present-day Northeast United States including New York.
What does a political scientist study?
government
List 4 advantages of rivers.
Farming, Transportation, Trade, Cultural Diffusion, Bathing, Drinking Water, and Fishing
How did natural resources and environmental conditions influence Native American Tribes differently?
Each Native American Group had to adapt to their environmental conditions and resources differently to survive and thrive!
Which key natural resource did the Iroquois use and list 3 ways in which they used it.
Wood. Built longhouses and wigwams for shelter, used it to make canoes, used it for fire, tools, and used it for making beds
What is economics?
study of how businesses, people, and governments use money and resources
Which state were the Five Nations of the Iroquois located?
New York
Explain the Land Bridge Theory (AKA Bering Land Bridge AKA Beringia)
The theory that the First Native Americans crossed a land bridge that formed during the Ice Age from Siberia to Alaska to chase animals to adapt to survive and thrive!
List 3 powers/ rights women had in the Iroquois.
1) Veto laws 2) Vote 3) Own Property 4) Arrange marriages. 5) Demote and Remove sachems (Chiefs)
List 2 examples of a secondary source.
Textbook, biography, thesaurus, encyclopedia, wikipedia, dictionary.
List 6 Native American Regions
Plains, Far North, Southwest, Northwest, Northeast Woodlands, Southeast Woodlands.
Why did the First Native Americans decide to migrate to the Americas?
They had to follow the herds of animals to adapt to survive and thrive.
The Iroquois had a representative government. What does that mean?
Their people elected representatives to lead and represent the peopls' interests. These representatives form their Councils.
Between which 2 places did the Bering Land Bridge form?
Russia (Siberia) and North America (Alaska)
Why does geography matter?
3) Influences where people move from and to
How could the development of the Bering Land Bridge during the Ice Age be considered a turning point in human history?
This development allowed for the first people to migrate to the Americas. This allowed for Native Americans to migrate throughout the Americas and create communities. Who knows if the Europeans who sailed to America later on would have been able to survive without Native Americans help. Also, without the Iroquois existing, who knows what our government would be like today.
List 4 similarities between the Iroquois government and the United States Government.
1) Sharing Land 2) The Great Law of Peace was the Iroquois Constitution and the US has a Constitution as well, which is the Supreme Law of the Land 3) The Iroquois and US Government each have a process in which they can remove leaders 4) Each have a representative government 5) Each need at least a majority of representatives to vote to pass laws 6) Each local, state, and national governments (Village Council / Mayors and Local governments; Tribal Council/ Governors and State Governments; Grand Council / President and National Government) 7) Women in both are given equal rights by the law 8) Checks and Balances.
List 5 examples of a primary source.
Photographs, paintings, notes, journals, written laws, physical objects, maps, videos all developed at the time one is studying. Eye witness. Interviewing a person who was there at the time.