Indigenous Peoples
This group of indigenous people live near the Arctic Circle, and parts of Alaska and Canada.
Who are the Inuit?
The Plains Indians stretched buffalo skins over wooden poles to make this shelter.
What are tepees?
The Anasazi were from this region of the United States?
What is the Southwest?
Living quarters made of wooden poles covered with sheets of bark, used by the Iroquois.
What is a Longhouse?
This disease killed 1/3 to 1/2 of the European population during the 14th century.
What is the Black Death or Bubonic Plague?
This group established an extensive farming society in the Southwest United States.
Who are the Anasazi?
This group of people grew corn, squash, and beans as their primary crops.
Who are the Mississippian culture?
This group of Native Americans lived in the Great Plains region of the United States.
What are the Great Plains?
The Plains Indians hunted this animal for food, shelter, clothing and tools
What is a buffalo?
This present day national park consists of buildings carved into cave walls by the Anasazi.
What is Mesa Verde?
General term for Native American tribes who lived on the Great Plains west of the Mississippi River.
Who are the Plains Indians?
The Anasazi used these two structures to turn parts of the desert into fertile gardens.
What are canals and earthen dams?
This ancient city near present day East St. Louis, Illinois had a burial mound that was larger than the Great Pyramid of Egypt.
What is Cahokia?
The name of the of the alliance formed of 5 tribes from the Northeast United States.
Who were the Iroquois League?
This is the name of the land bridge that ancient Americas used to crossover from Asia to North America.
What is the Bering Strait?
This group of people were known as "Mound Builders" and lived in the Ohio River Valley.
Who are the Hopewell people?
Shelter used by the Inuit made of cut blocks of handpacked snow.
What is an igloo?
The Iroquois settled primarily in this region of the United States.
What is the Northeast?
This was most likely the cause for the creation of the land bridge of the Bering Strait.
A drop in sea levels.
This document was a model for the U.S. Constitution and whose members were joined together by common laws.
What is the Iroquois Constitution?
A council of 50 representatives that met regularly to settle differences.
What is the Grand Council??
Name one of the materials that the pueblos of the Southwest were made from.
What are stone and adobe?
This geographic area is located between Russia and the United States.
What is the Bering Strait?
This word refers to groups of related families and was the social unit of the Iroquois.
What are clans?
This young woman experienced religious visions and helped the French win the battle at Orleans.
Who is Joan of Arc?