Pueblo Indians
What are the three sisters? Name all of them.
Answer: Crops: corn, beans and squash
This frozen layer of ground, found throughout much of the Arctic, made farming extremely difficult for the Inuit.
What is permafrost
This large, bark-covered dwelling housed several related Haudenosaunee families and reflected their communal way of life.
Answer: What is a longhouse?
The Bantu-speaking peoples began their gradual migrations from this region of Africa before spreading eastward and southward over thousands of years.
Answer: What is West-Central Africa?
Great Zimbabwe was built by the Bantu-speaking ancestors of this African people, who were skilled farmers, traders, builders and craftspeople.
Answer: Who are the Shona?
How did adobe help Pueblo Indians adapt to desert climate?
It kept their homes cool during the hot day and warm during the cold desert nights.
The Inuit used this natural material to build temporary igloos that provided insulation during winter hunting trips.
In Haudenosaunee society, children belonged to their mother's clan, and family identity was passed down through the female line. This social system is known by this term
Answer: What is a matrilineal society?
Bantu-speaking communities developed skills in working with this metal to produce stronger farming tools, weapons and other useful objects.
Answer: What is iron?
Name the three main architectural complexes that made up the city of Great Zimbabwe.
Answer: What are the Hill Complex, Great Enclosure and Valley Enclosures?
Name three man made things that were built for water management.
irrigation systems , reservoirs, canals/ channels,
To adapt to seasonal migrations and changing Arctic conditions, the Inuit used these two types of temporary shelters, one made from snow and the other from animal skins.
Answer: What are igloos and animal-skin tents?
These tall wooden defensive fences were built around some Haudenosaunee villages to protect their inhabitants.
Answer: What are palisades?
Name two push factors that may have encouraged Bantu-speaking communities to migrate into new regions.
What are
population pressure,
changing climate, the search for
fertile farmland and access to resources?
Great Zimbabwe's enormous granite walls were constructed by carefully fitting stones together without mortar. This building technique is known by this term.
Answer: What is dry-stone masonry?
At Mesa Verde, the Ancestral Pueblo people built settlements on higher ground that provided shade, shelter from harsh weather and protection enemies. What were they called?
What are cliff alcoves?
Name the tool used to hunt large marine mammals.
The Haudenosaunee used this object, made from carefully arranged shell beads, to record important agreements, preserve historical messages and symbolise relationships between nations.
Answer: What is a wampum belt?
When Bantu-speaking communities migrated into regions already inhabited by other groups, their interactions sometimes led to different outcomes Name at 3.
Answer:
Trade,
Intermarriage,
Assimilation,
Conflict,
Displacement,
Language exchange
Name two valuable resources that connected Great Zimbabwe to long-distance trade networks reaching the East African coast and the Indian Ocean.
Answer: What are gold and ivory?
During the late 1200s, a prolonged drought forced many Ancestral Pueblo families to abandon their settlements at Mesa Verde and migrate south. Where did they migrate to?
Answer: What is the Rio Grande River Valley?
The Inuit made careful use of animal blubber (fat). Name one way they used this valuable resource to survive in the Arctic.
Answer: What are providing high-energy food and producing oil for heat and light?
Name at least three of the five original Indigenous nations that united to form the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
Answer: What are the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca?
Approximately how long did the Bantu migrations last?
A. 500–1,000 years
B. 1,000–2,000 years
C. 3,000–4,000 years
D. 5,000–6,000 years
Answer: C. Approximately 3,000–4,000 years.
By the 15th century, Great Zimbabwe was losing its political and economic importance. Name three environmental or economic factors that contributed to its decline.
Answer: What are deforestation, overgrazing, soil exhaustion, food shortages and changing trade routes?