Vocab
a pile of earth
What is a mound?
Their mounds were used for this.
What are ceremonies?
They MOSTLY did this to feed their large towns.
What is farming?
If remains of canoes were found at a dig site, it tells us that the people used canoes for this.
What is transportation?
the fancy word for farming
What is agriculture?
What is Ohio and southeastern Indiana?
They got food by doing these things.
What are hunting, fishing, gathering plants, and farming?
These people lived along these rivers.
What is the Mississippi River and Ohio River?
This culture may have ended because of war.
What are the Hopewell people?
change to fit new situations
What is adapt?
Mounds were used for these 2 things.
What are burials and ceremonies?
Their houses were this shape.
What is dome-shaped?
Their houses were this shape.
What is square or rectangular?
All of the groups traded for these items because they were not found in their area.
What are copper and seashells?
an object made by humans
What is an artifact?
Their houses were made of wood and tree bark and were this shape.
What is round or circular?
Name 2 of the states they lived in.
What are Ohio, Indiana, Nebraska, and Minnesota?
This was on top of the large oval or pyramid-shaped mound in the middle of town.
What is a temple or the chief's house?
a group of people connected by a common language, religion, and culture
What is a cultural group?
studies artifacts and sites to learn about ancient people
What is an archaeologist?
These were 2 things they made from stone and clay.
What are axes, knives, hoes, and pottery?
These people were given this name.
What are the Mound Builders?
They made these things - different from the Adena and Hopewell.
This was invented during the time of the Hopewell people.
What is the bow and arrow?