Native American Geography & Culture
Life Before European Contact
European Exploration & First Contact
Cause & Effect of Contact
Thinking Like a Historian
100

Answer: This influenced where Native American groups lived and how they survived.

Question: What is geography (or environment)?

100

Answer: Native Americans lived in these types of communities before Europeans arrived.

Question: What are tribes or nations?

100

Answer: Europeans came to the Americas during this time period.

Question: What is the Age of Exploration?

100

Answer: Europeans introduced this that caused major population loss among Native Americans.

Question: What are diseases?

100

Answer: A source created during the time being studied.

Question: What is a primary source?

200

 Answer: Native American cultures were different because of this.

Question: What is different climates and environments?

200

 Answer: This resource provided food for many Native American groups.

Question: What are plants, animals, or crops like corn?

200

 Answer: One reason Europeans explored the Americas.

Question: What is to find wealth, land, or new trade routes? or What is God, Gold or Glory?

200

Answer: One negative effect of European settlement on Native Americans.

Question: What is loss of land or resources?

200

Answer: This skill asks who created a source and why it was created.

Question: What is sourcing?

300

 Answer: This Native American group lived in present-day New York and formed a confederacy.

Question: Who are the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)?

300

 Answer: Native American societies were organized based on these systems.

Question: What are family, clan, or tribal systems?

300

Answer: This exchange brought new plants, animals, and diseases.

Question: What is the Columbian Exchange?

300

Answer: This changed Native American economies after contact.

Question: What is trade with Europeans?


300

Answer: This skill looks at when and where a source was created to better understand its meaning.

Question: What is contextualization?

400

Answer: Native Americans viewed land as this rather than private property.

Question: What is something shared or used collectively?

400

 Answer: Explain one way Native American life was sustainable.

Question: What is using only what they needed from the environment?

400

Answer: Early interactions between Europeans and Native Americans were this.

Question: What is mixed (both cooperation and conflict)?

400

Answer: Long-term effects of European contact are still seen today because of this.

Question: What is colonization?

400

Answer: Historians use sourcing, corroboration, and contextualization to do this.

Question: What is understand the History more accurately?

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