Vocabulary
A relative, such as a person's children and grandchildren.
Descendant
A way of life.
Culture
During the last Ice Age, what happened to the ocean?
It shrank.
A hard rock that people shaped into points for spears and arrows.
Flint
As the last Ice Age came to an end, life in ancient Texas did what?
Changed
A time when huge sheets of ice and snow covered parts of Earth's land and sea.
Ice Age
Farming, or growing crops.
Agriculture
What two countries are connected by the Beringia Land Bridge?
Asia and North America
Tools made from flint have been found across the Southwest and the Great Plain. Archeologists say this shows the people did what with flint?
Traded far and wide.
What were the main crops grown after the Ice Age?
Corn, Beans, and Squash.
A person who collects plants and hunts wild animals for food.
An object made and used by people.
Artifact
What happened to the huge animals that early American Indians hunted?
They died out and became extinct.
Scientist have other theories, or ideas, about possible origins of the first people who may have come to North America. What are these two theories, or ideas?
Ancient people from Europe crossed a part of the ocean that was frozen, hunting seal.
People sailed along the coast in small boats.
Which smaller animals took the place of the great beasts that died out or became extinct?
Elk and Bears.
An open pit where people mine, or dig up, rocks.
Quarry
To study the culture and artifacts of early people.
Archeologist
People from Asia could walk to North America across a strip of land that linked the two countries. What is this land bridge called?
Beringia
Little is known about the possible origins of the American Indians who first lived in North America, but scientists believed they arrived how many years ago during the Ice Age.
Tens of thousands of years ago.
How did people modify their environment after the Ice Age?
They learned to save and plant the seeds to grow food.
to adjust or change.
Adapt
Trade
Why might American Indian cross the grassy plains of Beringia?
Following herds of huge animals.
The ancient Texans probably reached the Texas plains more that _______ years ago.
15,000
The change to agriculture began how many years ago?
2,000