New Year's celebrations to end old quarrells were held in this region.
What is the Southeast?
100
The people of the Great Plains relied heavily on one major source for food.
What is the bison?
100
This region has warm, rainy summers and mild winters.
What is the Southeast?
100
The people of the coast would use these objects for trade with people inland. This object was good for tools and weapons.
What are shells?
100
Societies that are traced through their mother are called this.
What is matrilineal?
200
The bison was a critical part to life in this area, they were honored for giving their lives to help regional groups survive.
What is Great Plains.
200
The men of the Southeast would hunt for months at a time in order to catch this elusive creature.
What is a deer?
200
This region is mostly covered by desert and lacks the resources to have widespread farming.
What is the Southwest?
200
People in this area used palisades to protect their longhouses from enemies and raids from neighbors.
Who are the Eastern Woodlands people?
200
Early groups found out ways to breed plants and tame animals for human needs, a process called this.
What is domestication?
300
The people who live in this region, the Inuit and Aleuts, honored the spirits of the whales and seals they caught.
What is the Arctic?
300
The people of the Southwest were unlucky with their amount of rainfall. The people of this region created an ingenious way to bring water to their farms.
What are irrigation channels?
300
These two regions are covered by tundra, permafrost, or ice.
What iare the arctic and subarctic?
300
This type of agriculture helped create better soils and cleared a large swath of land for living.
What is slash and burn?
300
Many early groups were this, people who didn't stay put for very long.
What is nomadic?
400
These people sacrificed humans to the sun god by cutting out the still beating hearts of their captors.
Who are the Aztec?
400
Trade was important for the Navajo and Apache. They traded and adapted ideas of this earlier people to settle down.
Who are the Pueblo?
400
This region has snowy winters, plenty of rain, and is covered with forests.
What is the Eastern Woodlands?
400
This groups created large, patterned, earthern structures that were found to be tombs with jewels and gifts in them.
Who are the Mound Builders?
400
Due to the fact that I don't have a system of record keeping or a central city for trade, I couldn't be classified as an advanced one of these.
What is a civilization?
500
The people of the Northwest had a special ceremony to benefit their community and gain status by giving away most or all of their goods.
What is potlatch?
500
The people of the Arctic were forced to hunt because of poor farming conditions. They hunted these creatures because they were plentiful in their area.
What are whales, seals, and walruses?
500
This vast region has many different environments depending on its longitude. There could be cold, snowy winters or more mild winters.
What is the Great Plains?
500
This groups was able to build directly into cliffs in order to have a community with hundreds of rooms and many stories.
Who are the Anasazi?
500
Deganawida formed this, it brought pece to the five nations that participated too.