Vocabulary
Prehistoric
Southeastern
Gulf
Pueblo
Plains
100
Native Americans constantly used a hand held spear thrower in the Archaic Era. The spear thrower allowed the Native Americans to launch a spear with great force.
Atlatl
100
How did early people migrate from Asia to North America?
Beringia Land Bridge
100
Southeastern cultures stayed in one place to farm.
What is sedentary lifestyle?
100
The Gulf cultures moved from place to place looking for food.
What is nomadic lifestyle?
100
For irrigation systems.
Why did Pueblo cultures settle along water?
100
Followed the buffalo herds from place to place.
What is nomadic lifestyle?
200
The land bridge that existed between Alaska and Asia that enabled migration of humans and animals to North America.
Beringia
200
This was probably on the lunch menu of hungry early humans. They also treasured their warm pelts.
Mammoths
200
The Caddo lived in permanent homes made of woven straw.
Dome-shaped homes, beehive homes
200
Large body of water that the Gulf cultures fished and traveled on?
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
200
Flat roofed homes, with doors and windows.
What are adobe homes?
200
MAIN source of food.
What are buffalo?
300
Pictures that were painted by early humans on cave walls, ledges and cliffs. These pictures give archaeologists an idea on how early man once lived.
Pictographs
300
Living in tribes where men hunted large animals and the women for plants, they relied on the land for all of their food.
Hunter-Gatherers
300
MAIN source of food.
What is farming?
300
Along the coast.
Where did the Gulf cultures lived?
300
Homes made of dried mud and clay.
What were adobe homes made out of?
300
Portable homes made of wooden framework and buffalo hides.
What are tipis (tepees)?
400
There are several limestone boulders with deep, ancient carvings
Petroglyphs
400
Why did early people migrate from Asia to North America?
Following migrating animal herds
400
Maize, beans, squash, and pumpkin.
What crops did the Southeastern culture grow?
400
Temporary stick huts.
What are Wigwams?
400
Pueblo cultures lived in this region in west Texas.
Where is Mountains and Basins region?
400
Most hostile tribes in the Plains cultures.
Comanche and Apache
500
The Comanches never wasted any part of a buffalo. If they had left over food they would make it into , which consisted of dried meat, fat, berries and nuts.
Pemmican
500
Times when the entire Earth experiences notably colder climatic conditions.
Ice Age
500
Fertile land in east Texas
Why did the Southeastern cultures farm?
500
MAIN source of food
What are fish?
500
Did not receive a lot of rainfall, only grew corn and beans.
What is a little farming using overflow from Rio Grande?
500
Painted stories on buffalo hides.
How did the Plains cultures tell their stories?
600
When Europeans first arrived in the Americas, there was a wide variety of native people.
Indigenous
600
Prehistoric cultures may not have left written record, but they did leave remains behind. These remains help archaeologist learn about past cultures.
Artifacts
600
3 major tribes from the Southeastern culture. (hint: east Texas)
Who are Caddo, Wichita, Atakapan?
600
Built these to fish and transportation.
What are dugout canoes?
600
Crops they couldn't grow themselves or things they needed.
Why did the Pueblo cultures trade?
600
Plains cultures lived in the high plains with rolling hills.
Where is the Great Plains?
700
As she studied the ancient pieces of pottery from the dig site, she theorized that the tribe that used it must have been farmers.
Archaeologist
700
Early People lived what kind of lifestyle?
Nomadic
700
People stayed in one place for longer periods of time, dependable food source, increased populations, developed more complex societies.
How did learning to farm change the cultures of early people?
700
2 major tribes of the Gulf culture.
Who are the Karankawa and Coahuiltecan?
700
2 MAJOR tribes
Who are the Jumano and Tigua?
700
4 major tribes of the Plains cultures.
Who are the Comanche, Apache, Tonkawa, and Kiowa?