Early Civilizations
a complex society
What is a civilization?
people who obtain most of their food by foraging or hunting, rather than producing it through agriculture.
What are Hunter-Gatherers
Tents made of bison hides and served as a portable home.
What is a teepee?
The people who created mounds.
What are Mound Builders?
the practice of cultivating natural resources to grow crops and raise animals for food and other products.
What is Agriculture?
Richest man in the Medieval Age in both Africa and Europe.
Who is Mansa Musa?
Built the complex and mysterious city of Machu Picchu.
Who are the Inca?
Light boats made of wood and seal or walrus hides.
What is a kayak?
the adaptation of a plant or animal from a wild or natural state (as by selective breeding) to life in close association with humans
What is Domestication
What are Farmers?
Tribes that lived in the mild climate of the Southeast of America
Who are the Chickasaw and the Choctaw?
at the bottom of the social class in Medieval Europe
Who were serfs?
system that channels water to crops
What is irrigation?
The "original Californians" this group did not need to farm because of the abundance of food and had a religion in which they dressed as animal spirits.
Who are the Pomo?
This tribes in the western grasslands migrated from place to place. hunting herds of Bison.
Who are the blackfoot?
Tribe of mound builders that spanned from Minnesota to Georgia
Who are the Mississipians?
Method involving cutting down and burning trees to clear land
What is Slash-&-Burn Agriculture?
The political and social system during the Medieval Age.
What is the Feudal system?
The oldest Mesoamerican civilization
Who are the Olmec?
These two groups adapted to the harsh environments of the arctic and tundra.
Who are the Aleut and the Inuit?
Lived in the eastern part of the Great Plains as settled farmers
Who are the Pawnee and the Mandan?
The Mississippians capital city
What is Cahokia?
To trace family lines through the mother instead of the father.
What is Matrilineal?
The movement that encouraged freedom of thought and the development of new ideas.
What is humanism?
Known for their vibrant murals, fine pottery, and advanced metalwork.
Who are the Moche?
Feasts where families gave gifts to guests to show social rank and wealth.
What is a Potlatch?
These two groups were heavily influenced by Mesoamericans, traded and ate similar foods.
Civilizations that came before the Mississippians in the Eastern Plains.
Who are the Adena and the Hopewell?
Which of the following tribes was not matrilineal? Chickasaw, Choctaw, Iroquois, and the Algonquian.
Who are the Algonquian?
Followers of the reformation of the Catholic church; martin Luther was among them.
What is a Protestant?