Vocabulary
Name of the land bridge that existed during the Ice Age connecting Asia and North America
What is Beringia?
This region is known for its icy, cold and harsh climate
What is the Artic and subartic region?
Scientist believe that the Ice Age created a ______ ________ between Asia and the Americas.
What is a land bridge?
The Algonquians of the Eastern Woodlands lived in what type of shelter?
What are Wigwams?
The Iroquois could be found in what Native American Culture Region?
What are the Eastern Woodlands?
Humans who move from place to place following their resources
What is a Nomad?
This region was known for sprawling grasslands with limited trees or other natural resources.
What are the Great Plains?
Old objects made by humans
What are artifacts?
Native Americans from the Great Plains primarily hunted what animal?
What are buffalo?
The Iroquois natives were from what region?
What is The Eastern Woodlands?
Two or more groups of people coming together to help one another.
What is a Confederacy/ Alliance?
The Eastern Woodlands were well suited for farming due to
What is having fertile soil and a lot of rainfall/ River's?
Climates that were harsh with limited resources made finding food and shelter difficult. People who lived in such regions were often...
What is Nomadic?
3 sisters is a nickname for what 3 crops that grow well together?
What are Corn, beans, and squash?
What role did women play in Iroquois culture?
Women could help choose clan and tribal leaders, and women could help remove those leaders from power if they didn’t work well.
An area connected by unifying characteristics
What is a region?
Which region was home to many Native American groups who lived in homes made from adobe bricks?
What is the Southwest?
The belief that the first humans came to North America from Europe in small boats.
What is the Atlantic Theory?
Type of shelter commonly used by Nomadic people of the Great Plains
What is a teepee?
Tracing the family line through the woman of the tribe.
What is Matrilineal
What is a tribe?
This region mainly relied on fishing. They used cedar trees for shelter and canoes and had abundant rainfall.
What is the Northwest?
Someone who studies human history through artifacts.
What is an archaeologist?
Peaceful people who lived from the Hudson River Valley down to Long Island.
Who are the Algonquians?
The 6 tribes that made up the Iroquois Confederacy
Who are the Mohawk, the Oneida, the Onondaga, the Seneca, the Cayuga and the Tuscarora?