This and That
This town was settled by the Spanish in the 1600s.
What is Santa Fe?
The oldest known culture in New Mexico
What is the Clovis Culture?
An example of writing found in the early civilizations.
What are Cuneiform or hieroglypics.
When people settle down in permanent homes.
What is sedentary?
The belief in many or multiple gods.
What is polytheism
Although the Navajo learned to farm, irrigate, and borrowed religious beliefs from the Pueblo, they still spoke this Dine language in common with the Apache.
What is Athabascan?
They developed the bow and arrow.
Who are the Mogollon?
The Cradle of Civilization.
What is Mesopotamia?
The type home used by the Navajo?
What is a hogan?
To move around from place to place without a permanent home.
What is Nomadic
Pottery discovered at the base of these mountains gave this indigenous group their name
What is the Mogollon? (Make sure you note both facts -mountain and nice pottery- found there.)
They were used to kill the very large prey animals that are now long extinct.
What are Clovis points?
The only ancient civilization whose beliefs lead to the development of three of the world's main religions.
What are the Hebrews.
Considered a technological advance in housing, the Mogollon followed Ancestral Pueblo and moved from __________ to _________.
What is pit-houses to pueblo .
A group of people who share a common ancestor and common culture.
What is tribe?
Two important farming techniques developed by the Ancestral Pueblo.
What is irrigation and dry land farming?
Tool developed by the Archaic to increase distance a spear could be thrown.
What is the atlatle
A development shared by the Aztec and Toltec societies.
What is a calendar?
The most important and biggest Ancestral Pueblo site in New Mexico.
What is Chaco Canyon?
A way of life that includes traditions, religion, customs, language, etc.
What is culture?
Chaco Canyon, the Ancestral Pueblo settlement, was likely destroyed by one or all of these three factors.
What is drought, disease, and warfare.
These two items were used to grin seeds into flour.
What is mano and matate?
Farming and trade routes.
What are two characteristics shared by all early civilizations.
Types of houses used by the Apache.
What is a teepee and a wickiup?
Give the name of the ceremonial room and the passageway to the subterranean (underground) world used in Native American culture.
What is the kiva and sipapu?