Cultures of North America
This is how the political systems of the Natchez and the Iroquois differed...
What is: The Iroquois system was more democratic?
Sun-dried brick...
What is adobe?
This was Columbus’s most important achievement...
What is: He established contact between the Americas and the rest of the world?
an area settled and ruled by the government of a distant land...
What is a colony?
This is how the Hohokam and Anasazi people adapted to their physical environment...
What is: They built networks of ditches to irrigate the desert?
the entire way of life of a people...
What is culture?
This is why the Spanish continued to explore and settled other Caribbean islands...
What is: To bring gold, crops, and slaves to the Spanish crown?
a moment in history that marks a decisive change...
What is a turning point?
This is an example of an effect of cultural diffusion in early North America...
What is: Many American Indian groups learned how to farm?
a group of related families...
What is a clan?
This was the greatest short-term effect of the Columbian Exchange on American Indians...
What is: It sharply decreased their population?
to sail completely around a landmass or the world...
What is circumnavigate?
This is the purpose of the Iroquois League...
What is: To end the fighting among Iroquois groups?
the spread of ideas from one group to another...
What is diffusion?
This is a positive consequence of the Columbian Exchange for American Indians (in what would become the United States)...
What is: American Indians learned to ride horses and used them to carry heavy loads?
a biological and cultural exchange of animals, plants, human populations, diseases, food, government, technology, the arts, and languages between the Eastern and Western hemispheres...
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This is how early Pueblo Indians modified the environment in which they lived...
What is: They built dams and water tanks for farming?
a community of people that share common customs, language, and rituals...
What is a tribe?
This is how the Spanish and Portuguese exploration differed?
What is: The Spanish were the first to reach an unknown continent?
in spite of, even after considering...
What is despite?