Shoes made with animal skin and fur are called...
Mocassins
The land in North America was covered in huge sheets of ice...
Ice Age occured
The Paleo-Indians followed the huge herds of mammoths, mastodons, and bison...
Cause: The Paleo-Indians needed food to survive.
What groups of people were Mississippian communities divided into?
Chiefs and Commoners
What farming tool did the Mississippians use?
Axes
A large sheet of ice is called...
Glacier
The Archaic people created the atlatl to throw spears further and faster...
Effect: They were able to hunt and kill smaller animals.
The Archaic people were able to grind nuts, seeds, and grains for eating...
Cause: The mano and metate tools were invented.
What hunting tool(s) did the Woodland people invent?
Bow and arrows
Where could you find a commoner's home in a Mississippian community?
Around the bottom of the mound.
A long piece of wood with a spear hooked on one end
Atlatl
The Woodland people created the bow and arrow.
Effect: They could hunt and kill animals easier than before.
The Archaic people had to find new animals to hunt and new plants to eat...
Cause: Many large animals became extinct at the end of the Ice Age.
Why did the Archaic people have to find a different way of live than the Paleo-Indians?
The Ice Age ended and many animals became extinct.
One Woodland family would live in what type of home?
Wigwam
A rectangular home with a wooden frame covered in bark. There are many rooms for many families to live together.
Longhouse
Some Woodland families were very large, so they needed more room.
Effect: They built and lived in a longhouse.
The Woodland people ahd food to eat during the winter.
Cause: The Woodland people learned to dry meat and store plants.
Paleo-Indians
What covered the outside of brush shelters for the Archaic people?
Brush & Mud
Leader(s) of a tribe.
Chiefs
The Mississippians built canoes.
The roofs of Mississippian homes had a hole in the center.
They used projectile points.
How did the Paleo-Indians get food?
They hunted and gathered it.