History Test September 20

Question 1

What was the passage between Asia and North America that the Indigenous people used to cross.

Answer 1

Beringia

Question 2

How were the Indigenous able to cross to North America

Answer 2

Thick layer of ice was formed causing ocean levels to drop and land emerged

Question 3

Where did the Algonquians live

Answer 3

Canadian Shield & Appalachians

Question 4

Where did the Iroquoians live

Answer 4

St-Lawerence Lowlands and the great lakes

Question 5

Where did the Inuit live

Answer 5

Northern part of North America

Question 6

How did the Algonquians survive?

Answer 6

Hunting, fishing and gathering

Question 7

How did the Iroquoians survive

Answer 7

Agriculture

Question 8

What is the way of life of the Iroquoians?

Answer 8

Sedentary

Question 9

What is the way of life of the Algonquians

Answer 9

Nomadic

Question 10

What is the dwelling of the algonquians

Answer 10

Wigwam (Tent)

Question 11

What is the dwelling of the Iroquoians

Answer 11

Longhouses

Question 12

What surrounds the dwelling of the Iroquoians

Answer 12

Palisade

Question 13

What is the social structure of the Algonquians

Answer 13

Men- They are Patrilineal

Question 14

What is the social structure of the Iroquoians

Answer 14

Women- They are Matrilineal

Question 15

What was the trade system called and what does it mean

Answer 15

Bartering. Object for Object, no money involved

Question 16

What was the preferred method of transport

Answer 16

Canoe
They traveled in waterways

Question 17

What is a meeting point and where was it

Answer 17

Confluence- Where two rivers meet

Question 18

Name some examples of what the Iroquoians traded

Answer 18

Pottery, Tobacco, Three sisters: Squash, beans and corn

Question 19

Name some examples of what the Algonquians traded

Answer 19

Fur and pelts, dried meat from big game

Question 20

Who are the first Nations

Answer 20

Algonquians & Iroquoians

Question 21

Describe the education system for children in indigenous societies

Answer 21

The elders would share information orally. No punishments. When they would get older they were taught by same-sex genders to complete a variety of tasks assigned to them

Question 22

What is a Shaman

Answer 22

Dream Interpreter, A link to the spiritual world, a healer

Question 22

What does it mean to be animist

Answer 22

Believing all elements of nature have a soul and are equal

Question 23

What was the language used for trading

Answer 23

The Huron Language

Question 24

What was the popular sharing system and explain it

Answer 24

Gift and Counter gift When someone gives you a gift you give a better one back.

Question 25

What is a rite? Who celebrated it

Answer 25

Iroquoians. A rite is when they move their village every 10 to 15 years. They would dig up the bones of the deceased, put them in a mass grave, and feasted.

Question 26

Define Matrilineal

Answer 26

After marriage the man would move into the women's longhouses, inheirtance was passed on mother to daughter. Last names came from mothers side Mother is head of family

Question 27

Define Patrilineal

Answer 27

Father head of family Material inheirtance passed down father to son Last names came from fathers side