Chapter 1 Early Peoples

Question 1

Anasazi

Answer 1

An early Native American people who lived in the American Southwest

Question 2

Aztec

Answer 2

Tenochtitlan; ruled most of present-day Mexico; pyramids; wandering warriors; chinampas

Question 3

Beringia

Answer 3

land bridge that connected Asia and North America

Question 4

Hopewell

Answer 4

peoples of the Ohio River Valley that built elaborate mounds

Question 5

Hopi

Answer 5

Native American group that the Navajo took matrilineal and corn cultivation

Question 6

Inca

Answer 6

Group of Native Americans that lived in the Andes mountains

Question 7

Inuit

Answer 7

a member of an indigenous people of northern Canada and parts of Greenland and Alaska

Question 8

Iroquois League

Answer 8

an alliance between the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca

Question 9

Matrilineal

Answer 9

term for a family organization in which kinship ties are traced through the mother

Question 10

Mayans

Answer 10

Ancient civilization located in Yucatan Peninsula and present day Guatemala

Question 11

Migration

Answer 11

Form of relocation diffusion involving permanent move to a new location.

Question 12

Natural Resource

Answer 12

something found in nature that is useful to humans

Question 13

Paleo-Indians

Answer 13

people believed to have crossed the bering land bridge

Question 14

Pueblos

Answer 14

Villages of large apartment style compounds made of stone or clay, Anasazi lived there.

Question 15

Amerigo Vespucci

Answer 15

The Italian sailor and map maker who corrected Columbus’s mistake, acknowledging the coasts of America as a new world. America is named after him

Question 16

Astrolabe

Answer 16

An instrument used by sailors to determine their location of latitude by observing the position of the stars and planets

Question 17

Leif Ericson

Answer 17

The Viking explorer believed to be the first European to reach the New World (in about 1000 AD). Landed in Newfoundland which was called Vinland.

Question 18

Christopher Columbus

Answer 18

He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India.

Question 19

compass

Answer 19

an instrument containing a magnetized pointer that shows the direction of magnetic north and bearings from it.

Question 20

Conquistador

Answer 20

A Spanish conqueror of the Americas

Question 21

Algonquian

Answer 21

A native group or nation in the northeast that included the Lenape, Montauk, Machican, and Adirondack. They speak the Algonquian language.

Question 22

Clovis People

Answer 22

The earliest known people to inhabit the Americas.

Question 23

Triangular Trade

Answer 23

A three way system of trade during 1600-1800s Africa sent slaves to America, America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent Guns and Rum to Africa

Question 24

Colombian Exchange

Answer 24

An exchange of goods, ideas and skills from the Old World (Europe, Asia and Africa) to the New World (North and South America) and vice versa.

Question 25

Middle Passage

Answer 25

A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies

Question 26

Pueblo

Answer 26

a communal village built by Indians in the southwestern United States

Question 27

longhouse

Answer 27

a home shared by several related Iroquois families

Question 28

Wampum

Answer 28

Belts or strings of polished seashells that were used for trading gift-giving and currency by Iroquois & other Native Americans