Vocab
A wanderer who has no settled home.
What is a nomad?
This is the "mother civilization."
Who/What are they Olmecs?
A culture that has cities and well developed forms of government, religion and learning.
What is civilization?
The ancient Indians changed their way of life because of this.
What is animals going extinct?
These are the ways that the ancient Indians ate. (List 3)
What is hunting, gathering and agriculture?
The use of scientific knowledge or tools to make or do something.
What is technology?
Name the 4 civilizations discussed in the lesson.
Who are the Olmecs, the Maya, the Mound Builders, and the Anasazi?
A group of people who are alike in some way. Classes are treated with different amounts of respect in society.
What is a class?
People come from all over the world to live in North American.
This invention was used to throw spears.
What is an atlatl?
To die out
What is extinct?
This group settled in what is now the eastern United States.
Who are the Mound Builders?
A practice of holding people against their will and making them carry out orders.
What is slavery?
The atlatl is a form of ancient technology.
Explain how technology and civilization are related?
This weapon was found in Clovis, New Mexico
What is a clovis point?
Another word for farming.
What is agriculture?
This civilization settled in what is now New Mexico and the surrounding states.
Who are the Anasazi?
A Spanish word for village
What is a pueblo?
Hunter's used this 10,000 years ago.
What is the atlatl?
The greatest teacher in 5th grade.
Who is Mrs. Sulitka?
A group of Native Americans who share a language and customs.
What is a tribe?
This civilization lived south of the Olmecs and built more than 100 stone cities.
Who are the Mayas?
Stories that are told about origins, or the beginnings, of Native American people.
What are origin stories?
Both of these civilizations arose in what is southern eastern New Mexico, traded with each other and were divided into social classes.
How were the Mayan and Olmecs similar?
They used stones to make tools, gather food and build cities
How did ancient Indians use natural resources?