Definitions
People with no permanent homes.
What is a nomad?
Scientists who study ancient cultures.
What is an archaeologist?
Civilizations were formed when a culture gained ____ and _____.
What are languages and knowledge of agriculture?
The tribes in the Pacific Northwest were the most rich.
What is true?
A story that attempts to explain something in nature.
What is a myth?
Before mankind learned how to grow their own food, they got food by being _____ and _____.
What are hunters and gatherers?
Horses were brought to Native Americans by the French.
What is false? The Spanish brought horses to Native American populations.
Early Native Americans travelled from Asia to North America during the Ice Age.
What is true?
Any art, tools, weapons, homes, or clothing left behind by a civilization.
What are artifacts?
Horses were used by Natives for ____ and ____.
What is hunting, travel, and warfare?
True or False: The Native Americans loved the Europeans for everything they brought.
What is false? The Natives resented Europeans for coming to America, invading their land, and spreading disease.
The Plains tribe lived in long houses made of mud.
What is False? They lived in tipis to quickly pick up and follow the herd.
Small carved items used to teach lessons.
What are Kachina dolls?
Three items the Native Americans used buffalo for were ____, ____, and ____.
What is meat for food, skins for tipis, and fur for robes?
True or False: The Plains tribe respected Mother Earth.
What is true? Because it protected them and gave them everything they ever needed.
The continent where humans first began was Africa.
What is true? about 2,000,000 years ago.
Large wooly mammals that were a major food source.
What are mammoths?
Nomads were often pushed or pulled from place to place. One example of a push was _________. One example of a pull was _________.
What is competing for scarce resources as a push?
What is following their food (animals) as a pull?
The lifestyle of each Native American tribe depended on..
Where they lived?
Early humans followed dinosaurs across the Bering Strait.
What is false?