10.7.2015

Homework Vocabulary Quiz (10.8.2015)- 30 points New York State Map (10.8.2015)- 50

points New York State Map Quiz (10.16.2015)-

50 points

Writing Prompt

The Iroquois believed that the long house was more than just a place in which they lived. Discuss one additional role the long house played in the life of the Iroquois culture group.

Essential Questions• How did the Iroquois people govern their tribes?• What role did religion play in the lives of the

Iroquois?• Why was the Iroquois League of Nations able to

maintain peace?• How did the first peoples arrive in North America?• What role did geography play in Iroquois culture?

Vocabulary for Unit 1  An alliance for some purpose

   Belief in many gods

   Land Bridge that connected Asia to North America

   A complex organized society

   A group of people united by a common ancestor with similar

customs and traditions  The study of people and cultures past and present

   A complex organized society

   Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk

   Average weather of a place

   Way of life

   Sixth nation to join the Iroquois Confederacy

   A region within which the people share many common traits

   Study of people, their environments and resources

   Alliance of the five Iroquois nations

   A woman rules the family or clan

   Iroquois story of how the world came to be

   People who move from place to place looking for food and water

 

Word Bank ConfederationIroquois League of Five NationsClanMatriarchyTuscaroraBering Land BridgePolytheismAnthropologyClimateCivilizationCulture GroupNomadsCultureThe Creation MythGeography

Map of New York

Locations