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14 Cards in this Set
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Longhouse |
Iroquois house about 150-200 feet long, built of wooden poles covered with sheets of bark and housing about 12 families
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Clan |
A group of related families
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Tepee |
A circular tent made by stretching buffalo skins over wooden poles
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Adobe |
Sun-dried bricks
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Pueblo |
A multi-storied structure of the Anasazi that could house up to 250 people
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Bering Strait
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Land bridge from Asia to Alaska
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Inuit |
People who moved from Asia to North America
Most settled along the coast of the Tundra region |
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Gulf of Mexico |
Gulf that is located next to Mexico, next to Florida, and south of other American states
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Hopewell |
Eastern woodlands group, near the Ohio River Valley
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Cahokia |
Modern city of St. Louis, IL, over 10,000 people, found a pyramid here
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Iroquois |
Northeast of the Mississippian culture, lived in villages called log houses, hunters and warriors,
Corn, beans, and squash |
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Plains Indians |
West of the Mississippi River basin, farmed in the Great plains on the river basin
Buffalo, Tepees |
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Anasazi |
Southwest, turned the desert lands into fertile farming land, used Adobe and lived in Pueblos
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Mesa Verde |
In Southern Colorado, there is an Anasazi national park |
