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Module 13 Lesson 4
North American Societies
Question | Answer |
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What was the Pacific Northwest from Oregon to Alaska rich in? | resources and supported a sizable population. |
What was the most important resource to Kwakiutl, Nootka, and Haida peoples? | the sea. |
How many people were the bigger canoes able to fit? | fifiteen people |
What did the social structure of the Northwest Coast tribes rely on? | wealth |
What was potlatch? | a ceremonial feast used to display rank and prosperity in some Northwest Coast tribes of Native Americans. |
What did the Northwest tribes do during potlatch? | they gave food, drink, and gifts to the community. |
When did the peoples of the Southwest were beginning to farm the land. | 1500 BC |
Why were the Hohokam the most most successful of the early farmers? | they used irrigation to produce harvests of corn, beans, and squash. Their use of pottery rather than baskets, as well as certain religious rituals, showed contact with Mesoamerican peoples to the south. |
What did The Anasazi build? | cliff dwellings |
What were the Anasazi living in By the AD 900s? | pueblos |
What is a pueblo? | villages of large, apartment-style compounds made of stone and adobe, or sun-baked clay. |
Why were Anasazi pueblos abandoned? | prolonged drought |
What did The Hopi and Zuni used kivas for? | religious ceremonies. |
What did they trade? | pottery/woven blankets/ corn/farm products/bison meat/hides |
What did Adena began to build during the 700's BC? | uge earthen mounds in which they buried their dead. Mounds that held the bodies of tribal leaders often were filled with gifts, such as finely crafted copper and stone objects. |
Hopewell culture also began building burial mounds. Their mounds were much_____ and more plentiful than those of the _____. | Larger/ Adena |
Mississippian lands were located in a crossroads region between ____ and ____. | East and West |
The eastern woodland tribes developed a _____ amount of cultures. | Small |