Early People
The Eastern Woodlands
The Plains
The Southwest
The Northwest/Pacific
100
Belief that early peoples crossed over the "land bridge" from Asia to North America.
What is the Land bridge theory.
100
shelters were made of wood and bark
What were their shelters made of?
100
shelter with a wood frame covered with sod
What is a lodge?
100
extra amounts.
What is surplus?
100
extended families.
What is a clan?
200
An object made by someone from the past that we study to learn about history.
What is an Artifact?
200
growing beans, corn and squash
What is the three sisters method?
200
a shelter made with wood poles covered with buffalo hide.
What is a teepee?
200
grew cotton for weaving cloth to make blankets and clothing.
What is cotton?
200
carved poles with animals representing clans.
What is totem poles?
300
They developed a counting system that included zero and a 365-day calendar.
What is the Mayan civilization?
300
peacekeeping group that resolved conflict among the people
What is the Iroquois League?
300
a layer of soil held together by the roots of grasses.
What is sod?
300
shelter made of rocks and mud?
What is pueblos?
300
the only Native American group in North America to use iron tools, probably traded by boat from Asia.
What is iron tools?
400
A movement of people.
What is migration?
400
Dividing work between people in order to produce more goods.
What is the division of labor?
400
a carrier made of wooden poles, harnessed to a dog to move goods.
What is a travois?
400
allowed Native Americans to get goods from faraway places.
What is trade networks?
400
Igloos, longhouses, tent, lodge.
What is shelters of the Northwest/arctic people?
500
They believed they were always here.
What was the Native American's belief about coming to America?
500
beads cut from seashells to make designs that showed important decisions, events, or stories, or traded and exchanged for goods.
What is a wampum?
500
in short supply (ex. trees were scarce on the plains).
What is scarce?
500
main food
What is a staple?
500
weapon used to hunt whales, seals, walruses, etc.
What is harpoons?
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