The Early Native Americans
Locations
Different Societies From Different Environments
The Arrival
Ancient Cultures
100
This means "ancient ones"
Who are the ANASAZI?
100
Anasazi lived in this area until around 1300 CE.
What is the FOUR CORNERS?
100
This region was filled with buffalo or bison so the people became nomads and hunters and lived in teepees. Some of the tribes like the Comanche and Dakota used horses.
What is The GREAT PLAINS?
100
These are people who move from place to place relying on plants and animals in the wild for food.
Who are NOMADIC HUNTER-GATHERERS?
100
An advance and complicated society.
What is a civilization?
200
The Anasazi first homes were homes dug partly in the ground.
What are "pit houses"?
200
The Hohokam lived in this area around 300 CE (from Mexico) and stayed for millennia.
What is present-day ARIZONA?
200
This means native to an area.
What is INDIGENOUS?
200
This is the movement of a number of people (or animals), often in search of resources or new homeland.
What is a MIGRATION?
200
This civilization survived on the coast of Mesoamerica and made giant stone sculptures. 1200 BCE to 400 BCE
Who are the OLMECS?
300
This is a multi-storied, apartment-like building used by the Anasazi.
What are PUEBLOS?
300
Where is the 100-foot-high Monk Mound located?
Where is Collinsville, Illinois?
300
This group of people included the Inuits and Aluets and built IGLOOS to protects themselves from harsh weather.
What is the NORTH?
300
A period of time when the Earth was covered with ice and snow and the entire oceans were frozen over.
What is an ICE AGE?
300
This civilization developed in the Mesoamerican rainforest raising crops and building pyramids and temples. They worshiped the sun, stars, and moon and developed a 365-day calendar.
Who were the MAYANS or MAYA CIVILIZATION?
400
A kind of clay still used for building in the Southwest.
What is ADOBE?
400
The Mounds Builders created more than 10,000 mounds in this area alone.
What is the OHIO RIVER VALLEY?
400
The is the home to the descendents of the Anasazi (the HOPI, the ACOMA, and the ZUNI) who continue to grow maize. Around the 1500s, nomadic groups of hunter-gathers arrived.
Who or where is the SOUTHWEST?
400
This is the idea that the nomadic-hunter gatherers crosses a land bridge from Asia into North America likely in search of food.
What is the Land Bridge Theory?
400
This small group started in the Andes Mountains 1100 CE. Their capital was in what is now PERU.
Who are the INCAS?
500
The Anasazi built this type of dwelling in the cliff wall and mountainsides.
What are CLIFF DWELLINGS?
500
Is is believed the Mounds Builders came from this area because their mounds looked like pyramids.
What is MESOAMERICA?
500
This area was teeming with forests, so tribes such as ALGONQUIN and IROQUOIS tended to be hunters and traders and farmers, and they lived in longhouses made of wood.
Who or where is the NORTHEAST?
500
A way a society behaves and its systems of beliefs, laws, and customs. The societies developed these after a while.
What are CULTURES?
500
This a rule or government where the priests are in charge.
What is a THEOCRACY?