Vocabulary
Adobe
a type of brick made from sundried clay
What kinds of animals were in the Ice Age?
Mammoths, Musk Ox, Mastodon
What did the women and children do during the Ice Age to find food?
Where did the Inuit live?
Alaska/Canada
The Ancestral Pueblo were
Cliff dwellers
A chief in a Northeastern Native American nation
Sachem
What is Beringia?
Land bridge theory that people traveled across to come to the Americas.
What did the men do to get food during the Ice Age?
Hunted herds of mammoth and musk ox
What is an igloo?
A dome shaped shelter made of snow blocks
The Ancestral Pueblo lived in an area that is now called
The Four Corners
A domed dwelling made of poles tied together with bark covering the sides, built by the Eastern Woodlands people
Wigwam
What two continents did Beringia connect?
Asia and North America
What did the Beringian use to hunt?
Spears made from sharp stones
What is a special Inuit canoe made from animal hide?
Kayak
Because they were farmers, the mound builders...
Stayed in one place
Confederacy
a loosely organized group of states or tribes
Why did the people have to cross Beringia?
The ice was melting, the mammoths were dying, the people followed the mammoths as a food source.
The earliest Americans came from?
Asia
What are the northern lights?
soft, colorful light that appears in the sky in
northern lands, caused by the reflection of
sunlight
A Pueblo people who live in villages on the high mesas are the
Hopi
a ceremonial pipe used by Native Americans
Peace pipe
How did the people of Beringia get their food supply?
Hunting and gathering
What were the different theories of people traveling to the Americas?
Land Bridge-Beringia
The people were already here-Origin Stories
Are the Inuit descendants of the Beringians?
No, the Inuit are a separate group from those who traveled from Asia.
The Navajo and the Apache migrated to the Southwest from
Canada