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VOCABULARY
FIRST AMERICANS
FIRST AMERICANS (2)
FIRST AMERICANS BUILD CULTURES
NATIVE AMERICANS BUILD GREAT EMPIRES
100
People who move from one place to another while searching for food
NOMADS
100
30,000 years ago America was covered with this
ice /glaciers
100
The Spanish word for town
Pueblo
100
Another name for the Lakota tribe
Sioux
100
Name 2 of the tribes that lived in Mexico & Central America
Maya / Aztec
200
Bricks made of clay dried in the sun
Adobe
200
This used to connect North America and Asia
Land bridge
200
Pueblo men said prayers to the spirits of rain, wind &lightening in this underground room
Kiva
200
This animal was the 'key of life' to the people of the Great Plains.
Buffalo
200
What stood at the heart of each Mayan city?
Pyramid
300
Movement of people from one place to another
Migration
300
Hunter's migrated to America because they were following these animals
Mammoth / Deer
300
Name 1 special role that Iroquois women had
1) owned all property 2) in charge of planting /harvesting 3) elect male leaders
300
These 3 crops grown in the southwest were known as the '3 sisters'
Bean, corn, squash
300
What accurate system did the Mayans invent, that we still use today?
365 day calendar
400
The surroundings of a people
Environment
400
This 'key discovery' changed the way the Native Indians lived.
Farming
400
This Indian tribe was the most powerful because they helped form the League of Five Nations
Iroquois
400
A period of dry weather, where there is no rain.
Drought
400
Why did the Mayan society decline?
unknown 'Mystery in history'
500
Payments that a powerful nation forces people it conquers to make as payment
Tribute
500
The first Native Americans were this (people who moved from place to place)
Nomads
500
What did the tribes of the Pacific North West hunt?
Whales / seals
500
The Anasazi lived in houses made of this
Adobe (mud brick)
500
Name 1 thing the Aztec were well know for?
1) wove cloth 2) goldsmiths made jewelry, masks, religious objects 3) sacrificing people to please the gods