First Americans
Who were the first Americans?
Paleo - Indians
What does cause mean in cause and effect?
What happens that leads to a result
Where were the Aztec and Inca civilizations located?
Mexico and Peru
Where were the Iroquois located?
Northeast woodlands, New York
The Pueblo lived in the
Southwestern United States
How did the Paleo Americans get to the Americas?
A Land Bridge?
Is the outcome of an event cause or effect?
Effect
Where were the Maya located?
Central America, Guatamala, Honduras, Mexico, Yutacan Peninsula.
What did the Iroquois use for shelter?
Longhouses
What farming method was used by both the Maya and the Iroquois. This method involved cutting down forests.
Slash and Burn.
What was the name of the land bridge the Paleo - Indians took?
Beringia
an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest is?
An Artifact
This civilization used terrace farming and created a road system to adapt to their mountainous environment.
Inca
Iroquois grew mainly corn, beans, and squash. These crops are known as the?
Three sisters
Why did the Native Americans of the Great Plains use teepees for shelter.
Allowed them to keep up with the animals that they hunted.
Nomads who only followed one source of food were called?
Hunters
For Iroquois, women were the leaders of society. They were in charge of choosing leaders and owning property. This means the Iroquois were a _____ society.
Matriarchal/Matrinneal
What caused the decline of the Inca and Aztec Civilizations?
The arrival of the Spanish and disease.
In Iroquois society, who was the head of society and had the most power?
Women, The Clan Mother
This Native American group lived in Alaska and Canada and used igloos as shelter to adapt to their environment
Inuits
Someone who learns how to grow their own crops and have a stable food supply is known as a?
Settler
A people's unique way of life
Culture
This civilization built advanced irrigation systems to adapt to their swampy environment
Aztec
The Iroquois confederacy is similar to the U.S. constitution because?
Both created their own laws and chose their own leaders.
Domesticating crops and having a stable food supply allows for?
People to permanently settle in one area and develop civilizations.