13. Grudgeball

NATIVE AMERICANS REVIEW

Prehistoric Native Americans

1.

The last ________________ resulted in the temperature of the earth going down, the glaciers growing by absorbing ocean water, and causing the land bridge Beringia to emerge.

Ice Age

2.

______________ was the land bridge that emerged between Siberia and Alaska during the last Ice Age.

Beringia

3.

______________ are hunter-gatherers that move from place to place.

Nomads

4.

______________ is a term for moving from one place to another.

Migration

5.

________________ is another term for farming.

Agriculture

6.

In order to protect themselves from dangerous weather and predators, people built permanent _____________ when they finally settled down.

Shelter

7.In order to survive the climate of the region in which civilizations settled, people used their natural resources to make ___________ to wear.

Clothing

8.

Thanks to the development of agriculture, people could now make their own _________, so they didn’t have to migrate any more.

Food

9.

When the first civilizations began to make their own food, shelter, and clothing for the first time, these were examples of ways that people had to ____________, or change, to survive in their new environment.

Adapt

10.

The food, shelter, and clothing that the first civilizations made would become parts of their new lifestyles, or __________.

Culture

Cities & Empires of Central & South America

11.

_________________ are highly developed societies.

Civilization

12.

The ___________ were known for building huge stone head monuments.

Olmec

13.

The ___________ put pyramids in their cities for religious purposes.

Maya

14.

A _________________ is a society ruled by religious leaders.

Theocracy

15.

____________________ are writing that uses symbols or pictures to represent things, ideas, and sounds.

Hieroglyphics

16.

____________________ are large, triangular temples made for religious purposes.

Pyramids

17.

The __________________ built their capital on an island in the middle of a lake in Mexico when they saw an Eagle on a cactus with a snake in its mouth. They called this capital city Tenochtitlan.

Aztec

18.

The __________________ had the largest empire of early American civilizations, and lived in the Andes Mountains.

Inca

19.

______________ are flat surfaces dug into the sides of steep mountains so that crops can be grown on them.

Terraces

Northern Peoples

20.

The _____________ Confederacy was made up of six tribes: Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora.

Iroquois

21.

The name Iroquois was actually an insult that meant “rattlesnake” in the Algonquin language. The federation prefered to be called the __________________________, which means “people of the longhouse.”

Haudenosaunee

22.

The enemy of the Iroquois was the ___________________ people who lived in Quebec and Ontario, Canada.

Algonquin

23.

The Iroquois lived in ____________________.

Longhouse

24.

The Algonquin lived in __________________.

Wigwam