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SS Ch2 S1 - 6P
for Adam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who were the first people to the United States? | The ancestors of the current Native Americans |
| What is the bridge theory? | The land between Asia and North America, called Beringia |
| 12,000 years ago hunters and families migrated where? | Across the land bridge |
| What is oral tradition? | Stories told by word of mouth; they were used to teach about history |
| Early Native Americans were nomadic. What does that mean? | Moved from place to place. |
| What are artifacts? | Objects made by people. |
| What did Native Americans hunt? | Large animals like mastodons and wooly mammoths |
| What did the Native Americans use from the animals they hunted? | Meat, fur, skin and bones |
| What happened as a result of climate change? | Huge animals died out; they started to fish and hunt smaller animals; agriculture became important |
| The Olmec Civilization - when and where | One of the earliest tribes in America; 1500 BC to 300 AD; lived in Southern Mexico |
| The Olmec Civilization - inventions | Created system of writing and counting; created the 365 calendar |
| What was the Olmec Civilization knows as? | The "mother culture" of the Americas |
| The Mayan Civilization - when and where | 300 AD - 900 AD; lived in Southern Mexico, Guatemala and Northern Belize |
| The Mayan Civilization - inventions | Developed writing system, used hieroglyphics; created a number system with the number zero; built more than 100 stone cities |
| The Mound Builders - when and where | 1,000 BC to 200 AD, lived near the Ohio River Valley |
| Mississippian - when and where | began about 700 AD; largest cities in Oklahoma and Illinois |
| What does pueblo mean? | Village in Spanish |
| Pueblos - what kind of homes did they have? | Lived in homes of multiple levels, built against canyon walls |
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