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OH-4th gr-Indians
Prehistoric and Historic Indians
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are secondary sources of information? | Secondary sources of information are those that have taken many primary sources and written about them to try and form a big picture of what happened or what a time period was like. Examples include: encyclopedia, textbook, historical fiction book |
| What does prehistoric mean? | Prehistoric means the period of time BEFORE written language |
| What does it mean when a culture shows evidence of cooperation? | A group of people must work together to accomplish something. In prehistoric times this could be mound building, hunting mammoths and mastodons |
| What is a cultural practice? | Any activity that a culture does. This could include artwork, mound building, foods that are eaten, the kind of home that people live in |
| Barter | Trading goods with other people without using money |
| What was the first hunting tool used by prehistoric people? | The spear |
| What advancement in weaponry technology helped prehistoric people hunt better? | The atlatl |
| How are timelines helpful tools to studying the past? | Timelines show what events happened in a chronological time order |
| What does it mean when a culture shows evidence of conflict? | Groups of people are not getting along and have tremendous disagreement. One group may force another group to move through fighting or even war. |
| What are primary sources of information? | Any item that is directly from the time period and first witnessed by someone. Examples include in this time period include: mastodon bone, spearhead, mound, artwork found in a mound, pot used by Indians. |
| How can artifacts help archaeologists learn about the past? | Archaeologists can assemble the artifacts and create a hypothesis as to how people lived. |
| What did the glacier do to the western part of Ohio and much of the middle part of the United States? | The glacier flattened the land, left rich soil, created the Great Lakes, rivers and streams |
| What is the land like where the glacier did not cover in the eastern part of Ohio and the Appalachian Mountains? | Areas where the glacier did not cover left big hills, mountains, poor rocky soil. |
| What was flint and how was it used by Native Americans? | Flint is a special rock found in Ohio that was good for forming (knapping) into spear and arrowheads and striking to create sparks for starting fires. |
| The prehistoric Indians first had a spear and then advanced to the atlatl. How was this technology advancement improve hunting? | The atlatl provided more force and allowed the spear to go further. |
| How did the advancement of farming change the culture of how prehistoric people lived? | When Indians began farming this allowed them to stay in one place for a longer time. This meant that they could build stronger homes, have time for artwork, build mounds, and not be as dependent on hunting for food. |
| How did the cultural practice of ways of getting food change over prehistoric times? | Prehistoric people began by hunting mastodons and mammoths to gathering nuts and berries, to farming their food. |
| How did the cultural practices of creating weapons during prehistoric times change? | Prehistoric Indians began with a spear, then added an atlatl, and then developed the bow and arrow. |
| How did the tools that prehistoric people used change over time? | Prehistoric tools began as rocks used a hammer, then added a handle for creating greater force, then used for grinding grain as a pestle and mortar. |
| How did shelters of prehistoric Indians change over time? | Shelters began as simple coverings using poles and animal skins, then small wigwams using bark and grasses, and then huge longhouses where many families lived together. |
| How do the scientists who study the past, called archaeologists, know what really happened in the past? | Archaeologists study as many primary sources as they can find, analyze them, and assemble them to create the best picture they can. |
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CherylBruce
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