Beringia
What was Beringa?
Land Bridge
Why build a mound?
Religious purposes or as a burial mound
What was the oil that the Inuit used made of?
Whale or Seal fat
The ancestral Pueblo people were considered what?
Cliff Dwellers
The Navajo language is linked to the Athabaskans. Where are the Athabaskans from?
Alaska and Canada
People who traveled around looking for food.
What are hunter/gatherers.
Mound builders did what to earn a living?
They were farmers.
What were the Inuit boats called?
Kayaks
What does Pueblo mean?
Village
Who brought sheep the to Southwest?
The spanish
Approximately how long ago was the last Ice Age?
15,000 years ago.
What crops did mound builders grow? Name 2.
Corn, squash, beans
What does the word Inuit mean?
The People
What is Adobe?
A type of brick made of sundried clay.
What were the two most powerful tribes in the 1600 and 1700's
Apache and Comanche
Name two types of animals that were tracked during the last ice age.
Mammoth, Musk Ox
What happened to the Mound Builder cities?
Citizens died from European dieases.
how long ago did the ancestors of the arctic people come to North America?
2500
What ancient Pueblo is conserved today that was mentioned in the article?
Taos Pueblo
How long ago did the ice sheets begin to melt?
14,000 years ago
In the article, how deep could the ice get during the last ice age?
Thousands of feet.
In what century did the Europen settlers arrive?
1500
Approximately how long is the warm season (Arctic Summer)
100 days
How many sovereign nations of Pueblos are there in the southwest
19
What happened when the ice began to melt at the end of the ice age?
Sea level rose
No more land bridge
People traveled further south
climate changed