A person who has no settled home and wanders from place to place.
What is a nomad?
100
The land bridge that once connected Asia and North America.
What is Beringia?
100
As the Ice Ages ended, and the larger mammals becamse extinct, the ancient Americans began hunting _______ _______.
What are smaller animals? (You may also list at least 3 examples)
100
This early civilization, which began in the Southwest region of the United States, was known for building pueblos.
What is Anasazi?
100
Indian peoples tell of their beliefs about the world and their place in it through their
What are Origin Stories?
200
A scientist who studies the cultures of people long ago.
What is an archaeologist?
200
During the last Ice Age, the oceans became shallower because much of the water was locked up in these.
What are glaciers?
200
Many of the early people began to gather and store these items as they climate changed and the large Ice Age Mammals were no longer available.
What are nuts and berries? (There are other possible answers, up to teacher discretion).
200
This Early Civilization is known as the "mother civilization" of the Americas because their culture influenced the cultures of so many later groups.
What were the Olmecs?
200
The term used to describe the movement of people from one place to another either voluntarily or because they were forced, or perhaps because they were hunting Wolly Mammoths.
What is migration?
300
A kind of sandy clay that can be dried to form bricks and be used for building.
What is adobe?
300
The tool used to throw a spear when hunting large Ice Age mammals.
What is an atlatl?
300
As the climate changed and their way of survival also changed, the ancient Americans made these as a means of storing food.
What are baskets?
300
Special underground rooms used by the Anasazi people for their religious services were known as
What are kiva?
300
This crop was one of the first and most important foods grown in the Americas for the early farmers. They thought of it as a gift from their gods.
What is corn or maize?
400
A small group of people who work together to do activities.
What is a band?
400
Beringia was the name of the land bridge that once connected these two continents.
What are Asia and North America?
400
As Ancient Americans began to work together, and settle in an area for a longer period of time, they began to develop these- made of many bands of people with a shared culture.
What are tribes?
400
This Ancient Civilization began in the Ohio River Valley and the eastern half of what is now the United States.
What are Mound Builders?
400
As the Ice Ages came to an end, the way of life for the Ancient Americans changed dramatically- they were no longer only hunters, but, were now known as _____ _____.
What were Food Gatherers?
500
People of different cultures exchange ideas and goods.
What is cultural diffusion?
500
As the climate changed and the ice melted, many of the large Ice Age Mammals became extinct because THIS died and they no longer had food to survive.
What is the lush, tall grass?
500
As the Ancient Americans began to settle, they also began to plant and grow their own food- this is also known as _________.
What is agriculture?
500
Name three of the Early Civilizations in the Americas
Who are the Olmecs, Mound Builders and Anasazi? (Hopewells, Mississippians, Adenas would also be accepted)
500
Many of the goods and ideas of the Early Civilizations were spread far and wide through _________