Mesoamerica
Early Desert Peoples
Different Native American Nations, Different Environments Part 1
Different Native American Nations, Different Environments Part 2
Respecting Resources
100
The first civilization to develop in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Olmec people?
100
Sources of water used by the Hohokam.
What are the Gila and Salt River?
100
The tribal name means “enemy” in the Zuni language, probably because they often conducted raids on Zuni villages.
What is the Apache?
100
To protect from the cold these people made leggings, moccasins, and parkas from animals' skins.
Who are the Arctic and Subarctic Peoples?
100
Ways that Native Americans show respect for natural resources.
Answers will vary.
200
These elaborate carvings and inscriptions in their system of picture writing covered their great palaces for their rulers and huge pyramid temples?
What are hieroglyphs?
200
The Adena, the Hopewell, and the Mississpian people were known as this after building these for protection and burial purposes.
What are mound builders?
200
This animal was introduced to the Navajo by the Spanish and helped improve their skills for hunting buffalo.
What is a horse?
200
The Peoples of the Great Plains used this animal for food, clothes, shelters, bowls, needles, thread, and tools. They used every part of its body.
What is the buffalo or bison?
200
This was built to create a safe, supportive space for Native American Youth.
What is the Chi-Nations Youth Council?
300
This allowed culture to spread through what is now Mexico and Central America.
What is the trade network?
300
Only receiving about 3 inches of rain each year, the Hohokam built this system to bring water into their fields.
What is the irrigation system?
300
These type of artifacts remain in better condition than wood and other materials.
What are stone artifacts?
300
This is a representation of a round boat made from buffalo hide and willow reeds.
What is a bullboat?
300
The building of the Keystone XL Pipleline built on lands that once belonged to the Sioux people would lead to this.
What is the destruction of water resources near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation?
400
As the climate grew warmer Ice Age Animals became extinct. Therefore, they adapted to the change and this allowed them to raise more food than they needed to feed themselves.
What is farming?
400
They lived along the steep sides of cliffs in apartment-like dwelling, making them the first cliff dwellers.
Who are the Ancestral Pueblo?
400
The Spanish word for homes.
What is pueblo?
400
Corn, beans, and squash are known as this.
What are the "three sisters?"
400
The buffalo did this to rescue the early people from starvation.
What is sacrificed themselves?
500
The time the Maya civilization reached its cultural peak between A.D. 250 and 900.
What is the Classical Period or Golden Age?
500
Located in Ohio, it is more than 1,300 feet long.
What is the serpent mound?
500
The Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest relied on this resource for food and plants.
What is the ocean?
500
This is a practice where people cut down and burn trees in the forest, and ash from the burned vegetation helps make the soil fertile.
What is slash-and-burn farming?
500
Planet and stars are seen as this.
What are family members?