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The study of the unwritten past
What is archaeology?
The first people to live in North America
Who were the Paleo-Americans?
The ditches southwest Native Americans used to get water to their crops
What is irrigation?
Breeding plants and animals to meet human needs
What is domestication?
The Indian home seen here:
What is a longhouse?
The Pueblo Indians were from this region
What is the Southwest region?
The Pueblo homes were multi-story buildings that looked like apartment buildings called this
What are pueblos?
The daily life of a Pueblo Indian consisted of this
What is farming?
How the Pueblo Indian traveled from place to place
What is walking?
Pueblo religious ceremonies were held in these round rooms
What were kivas?
The Sioux Indians were from this region
What is the Great Plains region?
The Sioux homes made from wood and animal skins
What are teepees?
The Great Plains made of grasslands provides homes for millions of these
What were buffalo?
Both the Mandan and Pawnee grew these “three sisters” (crops)
What are beans, corn and squash?
Hunters among this tribe sometimes killed huge numbers of buffalo by chasing the animals over steep cliffs
Who were the Blackfoot?
This “mother culture” invented glyph, number and writing systems
Who were the Olmec?
These people built many large stone temples and palaces and they studies mathematics and astronomy
Who were the Maya?
Inuit and Aleut used these on water
What are kayaks?
Gathering where Northwest Coast Native Americans gave away belongings to show their wealth and earn social standing
What were potlatches?
Important food source for Native Americans in the Northwest
What is Salmon?
These North Atlantic sailors raided and traded throughout Europe
Who were the Vikings?
A system of government in Europe during the Middle Ages where vassals pledged loyalty to a lord in exchange for land
What is feudalism?
The center of religious and social life in Europe during the Middle Ages
What was the Catholic Church?
Charter that addressed the land rights of nobels
What is the Magna Carta?
Monarch whose survey of his realm resulted in the Domesday Book which helped him establish taxes and distribute land fairly
Who was William of Normandy?
Final Jeopardy
The women of this Native American cultural group controlled their material goods
Who are the Iroquois?”