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The First Americans
Review for The First Americans
| Question | Answer | Chapter / Section # |
|---|---|---|
| The mesa people made their homes from what material? What kind of houses did they build? | The mesa people used adobe bricks to build thick-walled houses that housed 1,000 people. | 1.9 |
| What materials were mostly used by the Plains people for housing, tools, and clothes? | The Plains people used buffalo bones, tendons, hides, horns, and hooves, for their houses, tools, and clothing. | 1.10 |
| What animal helped the Plains people to become better hunters? | When Spanish explorers introduced horses to the region, the Plains people could bring down more buffalo, move faster and more comfortably to new hunting grounds. | 1.10 |
| What foods did the Iroquois people mostly eat? | The Iroquois people mostly ate deer, bears, beavers, birds, fish, greens, nuts, berries, and syrup. | 1.11 |
| What materials did the Iroquois use for clothes and what kind of clothes did they make? | The Iroquois women tanned deerskin to make capes, moccasins, and skirts. | 1.11 |
| What were the mounds built by some Southeastern people first used for? | The first mounds were used for burial sites. | 1.12 |
| What foods did the Southeastern people grow and eat? | The Southeastern people grew and ate corn, beans, squash, pumpkins, and sunflowers | 1.12 |
| What present-day states were once part of the Southwest cultural region? | The Southwest cultural region included modern-day, Arizona,New Mexico,southern Utah,Colorado, portions of Texas, Oklahoma, and California. | 1.9 |