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What is the name of the Land Bridge that connected
Asia to North America?
Beringia
What is the name of time period when sea levels were lower due to water being locked in ice?
Ice age
Small groups of people who feed themselves by hunting animals and gathering plants are called what?
hunter-gatherers
Asia
About seven thousand years ago, people in
_______ discovered how to plant and raise corn.
Mexico
What is the name of group of people that came from Asia and settled in the far North?
The Inuit
A dome- shaped temporary shelter made from snow blocks was called what?
igloo
Group of Ancient Native American groups were known as cliff dwellers are the?
Ancestral Pueblo
Who are the Pueblo?
Native Americans who live in the four corners of the United States.
What animals did the men and boys of Beringia hunt?
Mammoth
musk ox
The Inuits used bows and arrows to hunt what 3 animals?
seals, Caribou, and polar bears
What two continents were once connected by the land bridge called Beringia?
Asia and North America
What happened that allowed the people of Beringia to go farther into North America?
The Ice Age ended, and the ice sheet that had blocked their way began to melt.
Why did the first Americans change their ways of life as they traveled across North and South America?
Groups changed the ways they lived to fit the places where they lived.
What important discovery did people in Mexico make about seven thousand years ago?
They discovered how to plant an raise corn.
True/false The Inuits were related to the hunter-gatherers who came from Beringia
false
How did the Inuits travel by sea and how did they travel by land?
Kayaks on sea
sleds on land
What are cliff dwellers?
Cliff dwellers are people who built their homes beneath or on the sides of cliffs.
What did the Ancestral Pueblo eat?
They hunted game and raised crops such as corn, beans, and squash.
What is adobe?
adobe is a type of brick made from sundried clay.
In what parts of North America did most of the Mound Builders live?
American Midwest and Southeast
Why did many Mound Builders die?
The germs and diseases carried by Europeans killed many of the Mound Builders.
Why were the Eastern Woodlands such a good place for Native Americans to live?
It had many sources of water, year round fishing, small animals to hunt, and other plants to gather.
What were "the three sisiters"?
were the three main crops grown by the Haudenonsaunee- corn, beans, and squash.
How were wigwams and longhouses similar? how were they different?
Both wigwams and longhouses were built using materials found in forest. Wigwams were dome-shaped ,while longhouses were long, rectangular structures.