Ancient North America Review Jeopardy

Ancient Cultures

100

These ancient people lived in what is today the Midwest during the Early Woodland Period, and built cone-shaped mounds mostly for burials

Adena Culture

200

These ancient people lived in the Midwest during the Middle Woodland Period, and built mounds and earthworks as elaborate ceremonial centers, often aligned to solar solstices or equinoxes

Hopewell Culture

300

These ancient people in the Late Woodland Period lived in the Midwest and South and built massive mounds as the centerpieces of cities after corn had been developed

Mississippian Culture

400

These ancient people lived in the Southwest and lived in cliff dwellings and pueblos, some of which are still standing 1,000 years later

Puebloan Culture

500

During this ancient time period, the atlatl was developed to improve hunting, plants like squash were domesticated, and the axe and canoe were created

Archaic Period

Artifacts

100

This piece of stone was used to cut wood, meat, animal skins and other materials

Blade

200

This stone piece was used to grind nuts, seeds or corn along with a mortar

Pestle

300

This piece of slate was carved with a hole in the middle, appeared to have wings and was likely used as an atlatl counterweight

Bannerstone

400

Clay was used to shape vessels used to hold food, water and other materials

Pottery

500

Pieces of slate were carved into the shapes of animals and used as atlatl counter-weights; these are very valuable if found today

Birdstone

Vocabulary

100

People who travel around following animal herds for food and do not stay in one place too long

Nomads

200

Spear-throwing tool developed during the Archaic Period to throw a spear further, harder and more accurately

Atlatl

300

Worshipping more than one god

Polytheistic

400

A piece of stone or metal used as jewelry; pendants and gorgets are examples of it

Amulets

500

The study of ancient people through artifacts, mounds and verbal histories

Archaeology

Food Sources

100

During the Paleo Period, people moved from place to place and found food in these two ways

Hunting and gathering

200

During the Woodland Period, wild grasses were domesticated to produce this crop

Maize (corn)

300

During the Woodland Period, ancient people in the Woodlands shifted from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to this

Farmers

400

During the Paleo Period, these massive creatures were hunted to extinction and used for food, clothing and shelters

Mastodons and Woolly Mammoths

500

Name one animal that did not exist in America before the Europeans arrived in 1492

Cows, pigs, sheep, horses

Famous Sites

100

This national park in Colorado preserves cliff dwellings that are nearly 1,000 years old

Mesa Verde National Park

200

This was a large city along the Mississippi River with dozens of mounds and a population larger than Europe during the Mississippian Period

Cahokia

300

This state park in Indiana was an Adena ceremonial center with a Great Circle Mound aligned to the solstices and equinoxes

Mounds State Park

400

This earthwork in Ohio is 1/4 mile long and was built as an animal effigy 1,000 years ago and was likely a ceremonial center

Serpent Mound

500

Most of the great Hopewell Culture earthworks are found in this Midwestern state

Ohio