native american chap 2
Terms
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- ancestor
- An early family member
- theory
- an idea based on study and research
- migration
- Movement of people, probably took place very slowly
- land bridge theory
- During the ice age,there was a land bridge between Asia and North America.
- Artifact
- objects made by people
- civilization
- a group of people with ways of life, religion and learning
- Olmec Achievements
- A strong trade system, a writing and counting systems and a 365- day calendar
- Tradition
- a way of life or an idea that has been handed down from the past
- Maya Achievements
- Developed a writing system and the counting system that included the number zero
- Class
- a group of people in a society who have something in common
- cultural region
- an area in which people share some ways of life
- Division of labor
- work that is divided so that it is possible to produce more goods
- Iroquian Five Nations
- The Mohawks, Oneida, Onondaga,Cayuga and the Seneca
- Palisades
- wall of tall wooden poles around the village
- longhouse
- A shelter made out of wood that held up to 50 people
- Three sisters
- Corn, Beans and squash because they were planted in the same field
- wampum
- Beads cut from seashells that showed important decisions, events and stories. Trades and exchanged for goods
- Confederation
- A loose group of government working together
- Hiawatha and Deganawida
- The two men who persuaded the Five Nations to unite and work together as a group
- The Algonquian tribes
- The Deleware, Wampanoag and Powhatan who lived on the coastal plain.
- Wigwam
- A round, bark-covered shelter
- lodge
- large round earthen house
- sod
- a layer of soil hed together by the roots of grasses
- scarce
- in short supply
- tepee
- a cone-shaped tent
- travois
- two poles tied together at one end and then fastened to a harness on a dog
- council
- a group a leaders who meet to make decisions
- ceramony
- a celebration to honor culture or religious event
- adapt
- to adjust
- staple
- something that is always needed or used
- surplus
- extra amounts
- adobe
- sun dried bricks made of clay and straw
- hogan
- cone shaped Navajo shelter built by covering a log frame with mud or adobe
- trade networks
- a system that allows people to get good from faraway places
- clan
- extended family
- economy
- the way the people of state, region or country use their resources to meet needs
- barter
- to exchange goods
- potlatch
- to give. A celebration to show wealth and deivide property among the people
- kayak
- one person canoe make of water[roof skins stretched over wood or bone
- harpoon
- a large spear with a sharp shell point
- igloo
- house made of snow or ice
- the plain groups used buffalo for
- utensils made of horns clothing, shelter, sheilds and drums made of skin toolsand arrowheads made of bones water bag made from the stomach hooves made glue
- The plain tribes
- Cheyenne, Sioux and the Kiowo
- Southwest and West tribes
- Navajo, Hopi and Zuni
- The Northwest and the artic tribes
- Kwakiutl, Aluetand Chinook
- Eastern Woodland tribes
- Iroquois and Algonquian