Historiography
The study of change over time.
What is history?
1/3 of the North American population
What is the Eastern Woodlands region?
The name of the first people in the Americas.
What is "Paleo-Indians"?
Characterized by a large trade network and elaborate burial rituals in the Eastern Woodlands region.
What is Adena culture? (What did the Adena culture transform into?)
This crop was essential to many cultures across North America.
What is corn/maize?
Based on primary sources.
What is a secondary source?
Characterized by whaling, igloos in small villages, and domesticated dogs.
What is the Arctic/Subarctic region?
These 2 types of now-extinct large mammal were what the 1st peoples of America were following that led them to the Americas.
What are wooly mammoths and mastodons?
Several of the larger warring factions in the Great Plains region
Who are the Sioux, Blackfoot, and Arapaho?
Farming and agriculture was the responsibility of these people.
Who are women?
___ is a piece of information that can be proven by evidence.
What is a fact?
Characterized by an irrigation system from melting mountain snow.
What is the Great Basin region?
The method by which the first people travelled to the Americas.
What is a land bridge?*
A large feast that functioned as both a form of social welfare as well as a display of the host's wealth
What is potlatch?
The type of political and social hierarchy system in the Eastern Woodlands.
What is a chiefdom?
A firsthand or eyewitness account, created during the time period in question.
What is a primary source?
Characterized by fortified, defensible houses built into cliffs.
What is the Southwest Region?
The way that the first people of America obtained resources.
What is hunting-gathering/nomadic?
Located in the Far West, this culture group lived in large, round houses constructed of sticks.
Who are the Chumash?
The presence of ___ in ancient cultures such as the Hohokam meant that culture had a sense of wealth and patronage.
What is art?
Information intended to influence or sway the political viewpoint of the audience
What is propaganda?
Characterized by redwood trees, massive canoes, whaling, and dense population.
What is the Pacific Northwest region?
Who are the Archaic Indians?
Lived in cliffside dwellings in the Southwest region
Who are the Anasazi/Pueblo culture?
What is slash-and-burn?