Crossing to the Americas
Is there consensus among scientists regarding how the first Americans migrated to the Americas?
What is no?
The practice of bringing water to crops
What is irrigation?
Last group of Mound Builders who built flat-topped, pyramid-shaped temple mounds.
Who are the Mississippians?
What kind of cultures did the first Americans live in?
What are hunters and gatherers?
What is matrilineal?
What is knowledge of agriculture?
Practice of breeding plants or taming animals to meet human needs
What is domestication?
Who are the Hohokam?
What area did Peoples of the West reside in?
What are California, Columbia Plateau, and the Great Basin?
Name one spiritual belief of the Peoples of the Plains.
What is:
1) close tie to regional animals
2) honoring sacred places or
3) Sun Dance ceremony which involved making a vow and asking the Creator for aid?
True/False. The first Americans entered the Americas only through Beringia land bridge.
The use of tools and knowledge to meet human needs
What is technology?
Native American tribe who built houses with hundreds of rooms and many stories They lived where Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico meet.
Who are the Anasazi?
First Native American tribe to create a number system using zero.
Who are the Mayans?
Why did the Olmecs abandon La Venta and other cities around 400BC?
What is scientists don't know why?
This Mound Builder tribe had a large trade network and stretched from the Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains.
Name of the peace-seeking man who advised 5 northern Iroquois nations to work together.
Who is Deganawida?
Name 2 things that helped the Aztecs become a strong empire.
What are:
1) draining swamps and building an irrigation system and
2) conquest of neighbors?
What specific 4 resources did Native American tribes gain from trade?
What are:
1) Northwest Coast people gaining furs
2) Inland peoples gaining seashells
3) Pueblo tribes gaining wild game and
4) Apache/Navajo tribes gaining farm produce.
What is desert region with little rain?
Name the 5 features of a civilization.
What are:
1) cities that are centers of trade
2) specialized jobs for different people
3) organized forms of government and religion
4) system of record keeping
and 5) advanced tools?
Name the 5 tribes that formed the Iroquois League.
Who are:
1) Cayuga
2) Mohawk
3) Oneida
4) Onondaga and
5) Seneca?
How did the formation of the Iroquois League benefit its member nations?
What is "They stopped fighting each other and helped defend each other"?
Where did the roots of the Tree of Great Peace spread? Name the roots and their nature.
What are:
1) the roots spreading in all 4 directions
2) The Great White Roots
3) Peace and Strength (nature)?
What is feeding their sun god human blood from war prisoners?