Ancient American Civilizations
Adapting to Different Places
Native American Cultures
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
True or False - Today, the Bering Strait is a dry bridge of land.
What is false.
100
What animal did the Native Americans of the Great Plains depend on?
What is bison (or buffalo)
100
Name three characteristics that define culture.
What is (answers vary)
100
What is a civilization?
What is cultures with complex ways of life that has made advancements in learnings, systems of government, religion, economics, and arts.
100
What is Ms. Hesterberg's favorite color?
What is blue
200
Where was the heart of the Aztec world?
What is Tenochtitlan
200
Name a Native American group that lived in the Northern Woodlands?
What is the Iroquois.
200
What do the kachina dolls represent to the Pueblo people?
What is spirits of natural forces, such as storms, or ancestors.
200
What is the term for a system that brings water to dry fields?
What is irrigation.
200
What are three examples of good ways to work as a team?
What is identify the task, assign roles, involve everyone, and get help.
300
What is an example of a structure built by the Ancient Puebloans?
What is apartment style houses on mesas; then cliff dwellings
300
What were two types of economies found among different Native American groups?
What is agriculture and hunter/gatherer.
300
What was the main responsibility of Native American children?
What is preparing for their adult roles.
300
What is an economy?
What is a system by which a group makes, shares, and uses goods.
300
What did the Native Americans of the Northwest depend on?
What is the sea.
400
How do most experts think the first people came to North America?
What is by walking across the land bridge between Asia and North America
400
Contrast the type of housing used by Native Americans who moved around frequently with that used by peoples who stayed in one place.
What is people who moved around needed housing that was light and easy to move, such as the tepee. Those who stayed in one place built more permanent houses, such as the longhouse.
400
How did the government structure of small and large Native American groups differ?
What is small groups generally followed one leader, such as a father. Larger groups had a more formal structure, such as a council of representatives.
400
Define a league.
What is a group whose members share the same goals.
400
What is Dumbledore's full name?
What is Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
500
Name 2 achievements of the Mayan civilization.
What is systems for writing and doing math; charted movements of the sky to create accurate calendars...
500
Name two examples of how Native Americans changed their environment to improve their lives.
What is burning shrubs to attract deer.
500
List two roles of women and two roles of men.
What is the women (1)gathered and prepared food, (2) planted fields and gardens, (3) raise children. Men (1) hunted and fished, (2) cleared fields for planting, and (3) defended community
500
What is a nomad?
What is a person who moved often to search for food.
500
What year was the Saint Ignatius Loyola parochial school established?
What is 1854
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