Cultures of North America
Lesson 2 Vocabulary
European Exploration
Lesson 4 Vocabulary
100

This is how the political systems of the Natchez and the Iroquois differed...

What is: The Iroquois system was more democratic?

100

Sun-dried brick...

What is adobe?

100

This was Columbus’s most important achievement...

What is: He established contact between the Americas and the rest of the world?

100

an area settled and ruled by the government of a distant land...

What is a colony?

200

This is how the Hohokam and Anasazi people adapted to their physical environment...

What is: They built networks of ditches to irrigate the desert?

200

the entire way of life of a people...

What is culture?

200

This is why the Spanish continued to explore and settled other Caribbean islands...

What is: To bring gold, crops, and slaves to the Spanish crown?

200

a moment in history that marks a decisive change...

What is a turning point?

300

This is an example of an effect of cultural diffusion in early North America...

What is: Many American Indian groups learned how to farm?

300

a group of related families...

What is a clan?

300

This was the greatest short-term effect of the Columbian Exchange on American Indians...

What is: It sharply decreased their population?

300

to sail completely around a landmass or the world...

What is circumnavigate?

400

This is the purpose of the Iroquois League...

What is: To end the fighting among Iroquois groups?

400

the spread of ideas from one group to another...

What is diffusion?

400

This is a positive consequence of the Columbian Exchange for American Indians (in what would become the United States)...

What is: American Indians learned to ride horses and used them to carry heavy loads?

400

a biological and cultural exchange of animals, plants, human populations, diseases, food, government, technology, the arts, and languages between the Eastern and Western hemispheres...

What is the Columbian Exchange?

500

This is how early Pueblo Indians modified the environment in which they lived...

What is: They built dams and water tanks for farming?

500

a community of people that share common customs, language, and rituals...

What is a tribe?

500

This is how the Spanish and Portuguese exploration differed?

What is: The Spanish were the first to reach an unknown continent?

500

in spite of, even after considering...

What is despite?