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Not having a permanent home, but instead traveling from place to place.
What is nomadic
To change because you are in a different situation.
adapt
The system of buying, selling, making things, and managing money in a place.
economy
The movement of people or animals from one region to another.
migration
A material produced by the earth that is necessary or useful to people.
natural resources
The number of years ago that it is believed the first peoples of the Americas existed.
What is 15,000 years ago
They founded Cahokia, the largest city in North America about 1,000 years ago.
Mississippian
Hard to find or get, or available in quantities too small to meet demand.
scarce
They studied the stars, sun, and moon and became great astronomers
Maya (or Aztec) either response earns a point
They built mounds across much of what is now the southeastern United States
Mississippian
A person related to someone who lived long before them.
What is a descendant
They built shelters into the side of cliffs, which kept them protected against heavy wind and bad weather.
Ancestral Pueblo
They cut huge stones from the earth to build large pyramids.
Maya (or Aztec) either response earns a point
They were a united confederacy of American Indian nations in what is now the northeastern United States
Haudenosaunee
The name of the land bridge that was used for migration by the early Americans.
Bering Land Bridge
They established the capital city of Cuzco, high in the Andes Mountains of Peru.
The ideas, customs, traditions, and way of life of a group of people.
culture
Foods and dyes were made with these natural resources.
plants and berries
Shelter, fire, bows and arrows, baskets, canoes were made with this natural resource.
Wood
Did the early tribes travel to the Americas from the north or from the south?
north
These are known as the three sisters.
corn, bean, squash
They are important because they were the staple crops in the growth of American Indian agriculture.
the three sisters
Their capital city was Tenochtitlán.
Aztec
They built impressive bridges over water high in the mountains.
Inca
They settled in regions covering what is today southern Utah, southwestern Colorado, northwestern New Mexico, and northern Arizona.
Ancestral Pueblo