Vocabulary
a person who moves in search of food
What is a nomad?
Native Americans in the Southwest developed agriculture. The Inuit created the kayak and used their cold environment to their advantage. The Maya created a system of writing and a calendar. These are examples of
What is Native Americans adapting to their environment and developing diverse cultures before the Europeans arrived?
What is to make clothing and other household goods?
most experts think the first people came to North America by
What is walking?
an achievement of the Maya civilization
What is they charted the sun, moon, and stars? With this information they developed a very accurate calendar
a system for bringing water to dry fields
What is irrigation?
example of a Native Americans in California changing their environment to improve their lives
What is they burned shrubs so that grasses would grow
The belief of Native Americans about the children
What is the children were connected to the spirit world?
About 10,000 years ago, people began to plant crops. this allowed them to stay in one place. The planting and raising of crops is called
What is agriculture?
the Powhatan lived in
What is the southeast?
a set of beliefs and a way of life that are special to a certain group
What is culture?
an example of the Powhatan economy
What is they built canoes and tools to catch the fish in the waters that surrounded their homeland?
what Native American councils did and their role
What is Native American councils made decisions and were the society's leaders?
the reason the Native Americans spread throughout North America
What is they followed animal herds across the continent?
which other group lived in the southeast
What is the Puebloans?
a group whose member nations share the same goals
a common reason for war
What is religion?
the role of men
What is to cook food for everyone?
which Native American nation formed a league
What is the Iroquois?
to change in order to survive the conditions faced
true or false: many Native Americans believed that spirits lived in the earth and in animals
What is true?
how did the plains people change their environment to improve their lives
What is they built economies around bison