Groups
What were the 4 Early Civilizations we talked about?
Olmec, Mayans, Inca, Aztec
What are shared traditions and behaviors called?
Culture
Who studies ancient people?
Archaelogist
People who moved from place to place, following herds of animals for food are called what?
Nomads
What is the term to describe the layout of the land and bodies of water of a place?
Geography
What happened to these early Native American groups Adena, Hopewell, and Mississippian cultures, and the Hohokam and Ancient Puebloans?
These cultures thrived and then faded before the arrival of Europeans
What is a Theory?
An explanation for how things work or how things happen
What is an example of an artifact?
Objects early people left behind
A term for people who survived by hunting animals and gathering nuts, seeds, and fruit.
Hunter-gatherers
What is a key feature of the Inca civilization?
Farming their land by cutting terraces into the mountainsides
What were the different Native American groups we talked about like?
How would you compare them?
Varied according to the environments in which they lived
What is it called when you move from one place to another?
Migration
What is a relative who lived in the past called?
Ancestor
What is the planting and raising of crops called?
Agriculture
Which city was the center of the Aztec Empire?
Tenochtitlan
Who were the 3 groups called the Mound Builders?
The Adena, Hopewell, Mississippian
What is a society ruled by religious leaders called?
Theocracy
What is a custom or belief that is passed on from on generation to the next called?
Tradition
What were the animals that went extinct which scientists though the early people were following?
Mammoths
Many believe that the first people traveled from ______ to North America about 15,000 years ago.
Asia
Name a Native American group that still exists in Wisconsin
Red Cliff, Bad River, Lac Courte Orellies, St. Croix, Lac du Flambeau, Forest County Potawatomi, Mole Lake Sokaogon, Menominee, Ho-Chunk, Stockbridge-Munsee, Oneida, Brothertown
What are Quipus?
Used to keep track of information by knotting different colors of strings in special patterns
What was the leading theory of how people first came to the Americas? (The first theory we learned about)
They crossed a land bridge from Asia to North America
What is the use of technology to bring water to crops called?
Irrigation
What are ways of life that repeated on a regular basis?
Customs