Early Native American Life - Quiz Study Set

What were common characteristics of Native Americans?

-Land Bridge: used Bering land bridge to hunt large mammals and cross into central america

-Diverse Language and Lifestyle: many empires, including Mayan, Aztecs and Inca

-Communal Relationship: hunting, land, etc.

-Polytheistic: Cahokia believed sun god & built temple mounds

-Tribal Communities: storytelling told history and connected past w present; matrilineal

-Trade: included copper

-War:attacking susceptible farming communities for food

3-sister farming define

planting 3 crops in same place (ex. corn, beans, and squash grew out differently so planted in same place)

Which communities were the largest?

Farming Communities

How did Native American characteristics conflict w European views?

-Relationship to community

-Religion

-Trade and Warfare

Pacific NW Coast, name physical environment, how they survive, how they lived

physical:mountains, water, ocean, forests, mild climate w/ rain

Survival:Lots of big game fishing (whales, otters, seals), small game hunting (squirrels, deer), gather berries

Living: wood longhouses

Great Plains Region, name physical environment, how they survive, how they lived

Physical: dry, flat, grassy land

Survival: buffalo used for clothing, food, bowls, glue

Living: teepees, *they were nomads*

Southwest Region, name physical environment, how they survive, how they lived

Physical: arid, no rain

Survival: corn, beans, squash (dry farmers), grow cotton to trade

Living: Pueblos *second to meet spanish*

Northeastern Woodlands, physical, survival, living

physical: cold winters, hot summers, dense forests

survival: farming *first to meet english*

living: wigwams

Atlantic Seaboard, physical, survival, living

physical: hot, humid, dirt, rocks, water

survival: 3-sister farming

living: largest communities, longhouses, mound builders *first to meet spanish*

Pacific NW tribes

chinook

Great Plains tribes

sioux, cheyenne

SW tribes

Anasazi

NE Woodlands tribes

Algonquian, Iroquois

Atlantic Seaboard tribes

Cherokee, Seminole

Great Basin

Region D

Pacific NW

Region C

California

Region E

Southwest

Region F

Great Plains

Region G

Northeast

Region H

Atlantic Seaboard

Region L