SS (4th) Unit 1, Lesson 1 Flashcards
the time before written history
prehistory
objects that people used long ago. These can include tools, weapons, clothes and jewelry.
artifacts
About the year 700, a group of people known as the Mississippians built the city of ________, one of the very first cities in North America. It became a center of arts and crafts, but was abandoned around 1300.
Cahokia
a person, thing or material that can be used for help or support.
resource
People who get most of their food by hunting wild animals and gathering wild plants are known as ______________.
hunter-gatherers
The Iroquois people formed a union with five different Native American groups that set up a government called the _______________. It was so successful that some believe it influenced the founders of our own government.
Iroquois League
_______________ was one of the founders of the Iroquois League.
Hiawatha
The _________ lived in the northern part of the ____________. They were always moving because they followed the ___________. They used buffalo for everything, including food, clothing, shelters and ________.
Great Plains
buffalo
tools
The _________ lived further south. The depended on the buffalo, but also _________ clothing and tools for fresh food.
traded
________ built their towns high up in shallow caves along cliff walls.
Pueblo
Pueblo is the Spanish word for ______ or _____.
town or village
the use of skills, tools, and machines to meet people’s needs or a new method of doing something.
technology
The ___________, like the Lakota and the Comanche, moved across the region, following buffalo and other _______ animals.
Apache
larger
The ________ of each Native American group in the west was influenced by the environment.
economy
The Northwest Coast, from _____________ to ____________, was a place rich in resources. People who lived there, such as the _________, didn’t have to farm. Sometimes they hunted but, most of their food came from the __________.
Oregon
Alaska
Makah
sea
