Vocabulary
Vocabulary 2
Paleo/Archaic Period
The Woodland Period
The Mississippian Period
100
a legacy
What is what people leave behind that others use to learn about them?
100
Native Americans
Who are the people who lived in North America before European explorers?
100
made weapons from bone and stone
Who are the Paleo Native Americans?
100
how Woodland period natives got their food
What is through farming?
100
used for temples, houses, and cermonies
What are earthen mounds?
200
how a group of people live everyday life
What is culture?
200
nomads
Who are people who do not settle in one location, but roam from area to area to find food for themselves and their animals?
200
lived near a river or river valley
Who are the natives living in the Archaic Period?
200
how Woodland period natives governed themselves
What is through leaders, chiefs, and councils?
200
how the Mississippian Period natives lived together
What is in communities, like villages?
300
historians
Who are people who study the past, usually by studying what others have written.
300
migrate
What is moving from place to place in order to meet one's needs, like food?
300
made baskets
Who are the natives from the Archaic period?
300
Pinson Mounds near Jackson, TN, is an example of this culture.
What is the Woodland natives?
300
led the tribes
Who are chiefs?
400
archaeologists
Who is a historian who studies the past primarily through artifacts?
400
prehistoric
What is the term for history that happened before it was written down?
400
were nomads who migrated
Who were the Paleo natives?
400
This Woodland Period fort is located in Manchester, TN.
What is Old Stone Fort?
400
the largest city of the mound builders
What is Cahokia?
500
artifacts
What are objects we find from the past?
500
history
What is the term we use for past events that are written down?
500
The Coats-Hinds site in Williamson County, TN
What is one of the 100 Paleo-Indian sites in Tennessee?
500
other items made by the Woodland Period natives
What are pottery and bows and arrows?
500
the century that brought Native Americans in contact with European Explorers
What is the 16th century (or the 1500s)?
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