Texas History Unit 1+Unit 2 Test Review

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Great Plains

Largest, central region in Texas.

Scale

Distance between map and real life, comparison

Mountains and Basins

Very dry, flat. El Paso

Key

What the symbols on a map mean

North Central Plains

Dallas, FT Worth, hills, more trees, Red river

Compass Rose

Shows the directions on a map

Coastal Plains

Lots of seafood, humid, lots of rain, Sabine river

Physical Map

Shows the physical features, landscapes

Political Map

Shows human made boundraries (like countries)

Thematic Map

Shows a particular theme/topic like population density, climate, economical activity

Primary Source

Source that comes straight from the person/time

Secondary Source

Source made or references a primary source

Grid

Longitude, latitude used to determine a location on a map

Equator

The longitude line at 0 degrees

Prime Meridian

The latitude line at 0 degrees

Shaman

Person with abilities to call spirits to heal the sick

Sedentary

Farmers

Nomadic

People who move as their food moves

Atlatl

A stick to project a spear farther

Archaeologists

Scientists who learn about the past with artifacts (bones, pottery etc.)

Agriculture

Farming/planting food

Caddo

Native Americans that lived near the gulf coast, were sedentary and had confederacies and were matrillinial

Bering Land Bridge

Strip of land that connected Alaska and Russia

11,000 BC

The year the first people arrived in Texas

Adobe

Dried mud/earth mixed with dry grass/hay

Tigua

Lived in the mountains and basins, were sedentary

Tepees

Houses made out of animal skin over bent poles

Jumano

Lived in the mountains and basins, traded with other tribes (were the middlemen)

Karankawa

Gulf Coast, hunters, fishers, lived in wigwams

Coahuiltecan

Lived in the plains, in the 1800’s most left to Mexico, many stuggles

Comanche

Were near Louisiana, farmed and hunted

Kiowa

Were allies with the Comanche, provided horses to the Comanche