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31 Cards in this Set
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Early people began settling in larger, permanent villages because---
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people needed to hunt for food, needed to go to a place with more animals
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the major purpose of the Iroquois League was____
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to unite and work together as a group
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Which cultural item was used to group Eastern Woodland peoples as Iroquoian or Algonquian?
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the language that they spoke
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Which civilization in the Americas developed a counting system that included zero?
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Mayans
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The___, of the Iroquois Nation, had the largest cultural region in the Eastern Woodlands.
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Mohawk
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In the Eastern Woodlands and the Northwest Coast how were trees used as their main resource?
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to make tools, canoes, longhouses and for food
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For their main dwellings(shelter), how did Arctic people adapt to their environment?
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they used seal skin to use as their shelter and sod
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The Iroquois used longhouses. How were they made?
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the frames were made from wood, bending the poles and covering it with bark
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The Plains Indians used tepees. How were they made?
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wooden poles were set in a circle and tied together at the top
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The Southwest Indians used pueblos. How were they made?
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it was a village made of rock
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What is a clan?
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an extended group of family members
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what makes a civilization?
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a group of people with ways of life, religion and learning
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The Eastern Woodlands people and the Northwest Coast people mainly depended on this natural resource?
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trees
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After water what was the most important natural resource for the Plains people?
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buffalo
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How did the economy of the Arctic people cause families to ban together?
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traveled/hunted together; when there wasn't food they shared seal meat
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economy
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the way people of a state, religion or country use their resources to meet their needs
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staple
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main food of corn,beans and squash
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surplus
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extra amount of food
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Native American ceremony
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a celebration to honor a culture or regions want
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adapt
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to adjust
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division of labor
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work that is divided so it is possible to produce more goods
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class
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a group of people in society who have something in common
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migration
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the movement of people
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cultural region
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an area in which people shared some ways of life
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artifact
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object made by a person
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The "Mother Culture" of the Americas was the ____ because their customs (ways of doing things) were continued in later civilization
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olmec
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Some Native American groups believe they have always lived in the Americas. They tell stories about their beginnings called___stories.
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origin
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Early people hunted giant animals like___
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wooly mammoth and matodons
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Land Bridge Theory
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early people crossed into Asia on the Bering Land Bridge
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Some recent discoveries hint that some early people may have traveled to the Americas by___
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boat
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What is a tradition?
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something that has been passed down in a family from generation to generation
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