The first Americans
How most experts think the first people came to North America.
What is walking across a land bridge from Asia?
The correct social studies term for American Indians learning to change in order to survive in the conditions they faced.
What is adapting?
The role of women in American Indian societies.
What is making clothing and other household goods?
About 10,000 years ago, people began to modify their environment by planting crops. The correct social studies term for this activity is...
What is agriculture?
An example of a way American Indians changed their environments to improve their lives.
What is burning shrubs so that grasses would grow?
What is a true statement about American Indian children?
What is American Indians believed that children were connected to the spirit world?
An achievement of the Mayan civilization.
What is developing a very accurate calendar by charting the sun, moon, and stars.
The American Indian group who lived in the Northern Woodlands and built dwellings known as longhouses.
Who are the Iroquois?
The purpose of American Indian councils.
What is to be the society's leaders?
An example of early people adapting to their environment in order to survive.
What is the Aztecs building systems for bringing water to dry fields?
The category under which the Plains people fall.
What is the American Indian group whose economy was based on the bison?
Generalization about American Indian religions.
What is the belief that animals and the earth had spirits?
The main geographic factor that caused the spread of ancient people throughout North America.
What is following herds of animals that they needed for food?
The main idea of the following passage:
The Pueblo people had limited water available to them and used it carefully. They dug irrigation canals to bring water to their crops.
What is the Pueblos modified their environment to meet their needs?
The American Indian group who formed a five-nation league that was led by a large decision-making coucil.