The Land Bridge and Migration
Name of the land bridge that connected Asia and North America
What is Beringia?
What are igloos?
This Native American group lived in the Arctic and survived by hunting seals and caribou.
Who are the Inuit?
The three main crops grown by many Native American groups were called this.
These European explorers arrived in North America around the year 1000 CE.
Who are the Vikings?
The first people to come to North America were...
Who were the hunter-gatherers?
The Ancestral Pueblo built their homes in these natural rock formations for protection.
What are cliffs?
This tribe lived in the southwest desert and built homes made of adobe.
Who are the hopi?
This was the main food source for many Plains tribes.
What is the buffalo?
This European country sent explorers like Columbus to find new lands.
What is Spain?
These large Ice Age animals provided food, clothing, and tools for early people.
What are mammoths?
The Iroquois and other Eastern Woodland tribes lived in these long, wooden homes shared by multiple families.
What are longhouses?
The Haudenosaunee Confederacy was also called this.
What is the Iroquois?
Early Native Americans learned to grow crops after observing these.
What are wild plants?
The arrival of the Europeans caused many Native American populations to decline because of this.
What is a disease?
This major event caused ocean levels to rise and eventually submerged Beringia.
What is the end of the Ice Age?
The Mound Builders lived in this region of the United States.
What is the Midwest?
This group of Native Americans buildt large earthen mounds for ceremonies and burials.
Who are the Mound Builders?
This farming technique allowed the Eastern Woodlands tribes to plant corn, beans and squash together.
What is companion planting?
This animal changed the way Plains tribes hunted (brought by the Europeans).
What is the horse?
Some scientists believe the first Americans may have traveled this way instead of crossing Beringia.
What is by boat along the Pacific Coast?
The homes of the Plains Indians were made from these animal hides stretched over wooden poles.
What are buffalo hides?
These two groups are from the Southwest and are descendants of the Ancestral Pueblo.
Who are the Hopi and Zuni?
Many Southwest Native American tribes built these to bring water to their crops.
What are irrigation systems?
This Haudenosaunee leader helped forma a government among multiple tribes to maintain peace.
Who is Hiawatha?