Key Terms
Giant Mammal Hunters
Early Civilizations
People groups
Ice Age
100

The study of ancient peoples

archaeology

100
Name one animal the Giant Mammal Hunters hunted.
Whoolly mammoth
100
A type of sandy clay that can be dried into bricks and used for building.
Adobe
100

Who lived in the four corners?

Who are the Anasazi

100
Huge sheets of ice are called
Glaciers
200

is an item such as a told left behind by a culture

artifacts 

200
What are people who wander from place to place called?
Nomads
200

In what region did the Tingit, Haida and Chinok peoples live?

Northwest Coast

200

What two people groups lived in the Southwest

Who are Acoma and Zuni 

200
What was the land bridge called that the early humans used to cross?
Beringia
300

helps determine the age of an artifact

carbon dating

300

What are the four largest and most advanced early civilizations?

Olmec, Maya, Aztec and Inca. 

300
The people who built pueblos out of adobe were the
Anasazi
300

What are the five groups of the Iroquois (can't name them all, name one and receive 60pts). 


Onondaga, Seneca, Mohawk, Oneida and Cayuga

300
What two places did Beringia connect?
Asia and North America
400

use symbols or pictures to represent things, ideas and sounds

hieoglyphics

400
What did the Giant Mammal Hunters begin to do when the Ice Age animals became extinct?
Began to hunt smaller animals, gathered and stored food, eventually began farming.
400
The earthworks built by the Mound Builders were used for
religious purposes
400

Name the greatest achievement of the Dakota people

Skilled horsemanship. 


400

The first peoples likely followed _____________ which led them across Beringia. 

food, large game, mammoths. 

500

linked the governments of different people groups (like the Iroquois

federation

500

What small game or fish did the early peoples eat?

bonus: how did they preserve the fish they caught?

deer and salmon

by smoking it

500
People were able to keep regular surplus of food after the development of
Farming/agriculture
500

What was the largest settlement of the Mound people?

Cahokia

500
Making baskets, living in winter and summer camps, and hunting small animals such as deer, rabbit and antelope are changes that took place after...
The giant mammal hunters became extinct.
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