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30 Cards in this Set
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Early people began settling in larger, permanent villages because__
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they developed agriculture
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The major purpose of the Iroquois League was
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to resolve conflicts among people and groups
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Which cultural item was used to group Eastern Woodland peoples as Iroquoian or Algonquian?
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the language they spoke
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Which civilization in the Americas developed a counting system that included zero
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The Mayan civilization
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The____, of the Iroquois Nation, had the largest cultural region in the Eastern Woodland
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The Mohawk
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In the Eastern Woodlands and the Northwest Coast how were trees used as thei main resource
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tools, canoes,longhouses and food
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For their main dwelling(shelter), how did Arctic people adapt to their environment?
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they used blocks of ice to build igloos during the winter and used sealskin tents or sod huts in the summer
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The Iroquois used longhouses. How were they made?
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thin trees cut down, bent into position, lashed into place, and then covered with bark-they were larg enough for 50 people
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The Plains Indians used tepees. How were they made?
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animal skins streched over wooden poles
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The Southwest Indians used pueblos. How were they made?
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by using adobe brick
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What is a clan?
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a large extended family that lives together
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What makes a civilization?
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a group of people that followculture(ways of life), religion, learning, and government
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The Eastern Woodlands people and the Northwest Coast people mainly depended on this natural resource?
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wood
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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 Artic people cause families to band together?
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When there was not enough food the families shared seal meat.
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economy
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they way in which people of a state, region, or country use their resources to meet their needs
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staple
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main food-corn, beans, squash
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surplus
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extra amounts
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Native American ceremony
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celebration of a cultural or religious event
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adapt
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adjust
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division of labor
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a way of producing more goods by dividing responsibility and chores among men and women.
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class
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a group of people in a society who have something in common
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Migration
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movement of people usually following animals they hunted
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cutural region
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an area in which people share simuliar ways of life
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artifacts
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objects made by early people that scientists use to learn about their culture and lifestyle
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The "Mother Culture" of the Americas was the____because their customs(ways of doing things)were continued in later civilizations
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Olmec civilization
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Some Native American groups believe they have always lived in the Americas. They tell stories about their begining called__stories
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origin
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Early people hunted giant animals like___.
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woolly mammoth and mastodons
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Land Bridge Theory
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Early People crossed into North America from Asia on the Bering Land Bridge
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Some recent discoveries hint that some early peoples may have traveled to the Americas by___
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boat
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