First People
What land bridge may have allowed the first people to travel from Asia to North America?
What is the Bering Land Bridge (Beringia)
Give one example of a crop domesticated by early peoples in the Americas.
Maize (corn), beans, squash, potatoes
Name one major group or culture that lived in North America before European contact
Acceptable answers: Pueblo/Ancestral Puebloans, Mississippian, Iroquois/Haudenosaunee, Hopewell, Inuit, Tlingit
What is an adaptation?
What is a way people adjust to their environment in order to survive?
A tool, weapon, or other object left behind by early people is called this.
What is an artifact?
The Bering Land Bridge connected these two continents.
What are Asia and North America?
State one way agriculture changed how people lived compared to a purely hunting-and-gathering lifestyle
Shift from nomadic to sedentary life; surplus food allows division of labor.
Which civilization built the city of Tenochtitlan?
Who are the Aztec?
People living in a desert might adapt by doing this with water.
What is conserving water or creating channels
The study of the material remains of ancient people is called this.
What is archaeology?
During what major period did people likely travel across the Bering Land Bridge?
What is the Ice Age?
Agriculture allowed people to stop moving around as much and create these.
What are permanent settlements?
Which civilization developed writing and calendars and lived mainly in areas including present-day Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize?
Who are the Maya?
Explain how the Inca used agricultural terraces and why they were important.
Terraces increased arable land on slopes, reduced erosion, and created microclimates for diverse crops.
This scientific method can be used to determine the age of an artifact.
What is carbon dating?
Besides crossing the Bering Land Bridge, people may have traveled to the Americas using this type of route.
What are coastal routes using boats?
Describe how development of agriculture could lead to permanent settlements and the formation of distinct cultural practices.
Permanent settlements enable built architecture, ritual spaces, and distinct cultural traditions.
Which group lived in the Southwestern United States and built homes and communities suited to their environment?
Who are the Ancestral Puebloans?
People living near the coast could adapt by fishing, building boats, and using these resources.
What are ocean resources, such as shells and marine animals?
A group of people who share a common ancestor is called this.
What is a clan?
Give two possible ways that the first people may have arrived in North America.
What are crossing the Bering Land Bridge and traveling along coastal routes by boat?
Explain how agriculture helped early societies become more complex.
What is agriculture provided a more reliable food supply, allowing people to settle permanently, grow larger communities, develop specialized jobs, and create more complex governments and cultures?
Name three ways the Inca showed that they were a well-organized civilization.
What are an organized government, extensive roads, advanced farming, large cities, organized workers, and systems of communication?
Why did different Native American groups develop different ways of living?
What is because they lived in different environments with different resources, climates, and needs?
This form of writing uses symbols or pictures to represent things, ideas, and sounds.
What are hieroglyphics?