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U.S History 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Wampum? | Purple and white shells used as condolence for the Onondaga, Mohawk, Oneida, Cayuga and the Seneca as a message of peace between the enemy nations. |
| Iroquois Confederacy | The Iroquois submerged their differences and created a council of chiefs and i confederacy based on the condolence ceremony around 1400 BC |
| Paleo- Indians | The earliest Americans who established the foundations of Native American like who traveled in bands |
| Bands | well-defined hunting territories consisting of several families and totaling 15-50 people |
| Reciprocity | the mutual bestowing of gifts and favors |
| Archaic peoples | Native Americans who flourished in the new environments after the Ice Age around 8000 BC, women were usually gatherers and men hunters. |
| Mesoamerica | central and southern Mexico and Central America, where the most sophisticated early plant cultivators lived where maize agriculture was highly developed by 2500 BC |
| Chiefdoms | Government realms that were limited the only a few communities in which they eventually emerged in several parts of the Americas from the Mississippi valley to the Amazon valley and the Andes Mountains. |
| States | a ruler or government exercises direct authority over many communities, a few states arose in Mesoamerica after 1 CE and South America after 500 CE, states centered Monte Alban, Teotihuacan, and Wari. |
| Aztecs | "Mexica" first empire in Mesoamerica who migrated from the north during the 13th century and settled on the shore of Lake Texcoco as subjects of local inhabitants, the Aztecs had a polytheistic religion, a system of writing, irrigation system, & economic |
| Incas | conquered and subordinated societies over much of the Andes and adjacent regions after 1438 CE by producing and distributing a wide range of surplus crops |
| Hohokam Culture | emerged during the 3rd century BCE, when ancestors of the Akimel and Tohono O'odham began farming around the Gila and Salt River valleys of southern Arizona, they built irrigation canals, permanent towns, and coordinated labor, trade, religion, & politics |
| Anasazi Culture | originated during the 1st century BCE in the "four corners," ancestors of Pueblo Indians who harvested crops, living in permanent villages with complex architecture, and making pottery, made themselves the most powerful people in the southwest |
| Poverty point | by 1200 BCE about 5,000 people lived on the lower Mississippi River. The town featured earthworks consisting of two large mounds and 6 concentric embankments, the outermost of which spanned more than half a mile in diameter |
| Adena | A different kind of mound building culture emerged in the Ohio valley around 400 BCE. Adena villages were smaller than Poverty Point, rarely exceeding for hundred inhabitants |
| Hopewell | After 100 BCE, Adena culture evolved into a more complex and widespread culture, which spread from the Ohio valley to the Illinois River Valley, where they fashioned fine ornaments and jewelry, which their owner wore in life and took to their graves |
| Mississippian | Beginning around 700 CE, the first full-time farmers in the East developed from living floodplains of the Mississippi River and its major tributaries |
| Cahokia | At 900 CE, largest, most powerful trade system centered here, located neat modern St. Louis, Missouri, where about 20,000 people inhabited a 125-square-mile metropolitan area for 2 1/2 centuries until 1200 CE where they experienced shortages |
| Nuclear families | A husband, wife and their biological children |
| Extended families | nuclear families living with one of the parent's relatives. In Iroquois societies, the groom moved into the wife's extended family where the primary male figure in the child's life was the mother's brother, not husband. |
| Characteristics of an advanced civilization | An established political and economic system, agriculture system and religion. They would also leave behind their Nordic lifestyle and make a more permanent village |
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