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America's First Settlers
The Hohokam and Pueblo Peoples
Mound Builders
Vocabulary
Geography
100
The place where the Olmec lived.
What is present-day Southeastern Mexico?
100
The Ancestral Pueblos build their homes on these.
What are cliffs?
100
The mound builders lived here.
What is the Mississippi River Valley?
100
These are people who study artifacts.
What are archaeologists?
100
N,S,E, and W are called these kind of directions.
What is cardinal?
200
The Maya built these to worship their gods.
What are pyramids?
200
The Ancestral Pueblo used this as a form of money.
What is turquoise?
200
A soft rock that forms when the soft lava from volcanoes is cooled.
What is obsidian?
200
A human built waterway is called this.
What is a canal?
200
NE, NW, SE, and SW are called these kind of directions.
What is intermediate?
300
Periods of time in which the water was frozen into huge ice blankets.
What are Ice Ages?
300
The Ancestral Pueblo developed this in order to grow crops in the desert plateaus.
What is dry farming?
300
The Adena got their name after this.
What is a town in Ohio?
300
This term is abbreviated A.D.
What is anno domini?
300
The prime meridian is located at 0 degrees longitude. It divides the Earth into these.
What is the Eastern and Western Hemispheres?
400
These are referred to as the "Three Sisters".
What is corn, beans, and squash?
400
This is what the term "Anasazi" means. These were the people who referred to the Pueblo people as the "Anasazi".
What is "ancient enemy"? Who are The Navajo?
400
These were three purposes of the mounds.
What is to tell the change of season, religious dances and ceremonies, and to bury the dead?
400
This is the name of the land bridge that connected Siberia and Alaska.
What is Beringia?
400
The Four Corners include these present-day states.
What is Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah?
500
To survive the climate changes that occurred during the last Ice Age, the first Americans did this. (2 things)
What is took shelter in caves or in animal skin tents and wore clothing from animal skins lined with fur?
500
The Hohokam owed their success to this. It was important for this reason (considering where they lived).
What is dry farming? What is living in the desert?
500
This helped the Mound Builders grow and spread.
What is their location on the river which made trade and transportation more accessible?
500
This is what "circa" means on a time line.
What is "around" or "about"?
500
If you were flying to New Mexico from Oregon, you would be flying in this direction. (Consult a map or globe)
What is Southeast?