The First Occupants: Population and Settlement

Question 1

What is the Asian Migration Theory?

Answer 1

30,000 years ago, people crossed over to America by the Bering Strait following the migration of animals. Their descendants then spread into North, Central, and South America

Question 2

What is the Bering Strait?

Answer 2

A land bridge created during the last ice age 80,000 years ago that connected Siberia to America

Question 3

When did the territory of Quebec become more hospitable?

Answer 3

As the weather got warmer

Question 4

What were the 3 native linguistic groups?

Answer 4

1. Inuit
2. Iroquoians
3. Algonquians

Question 5

Iroquoian

1. What was their way of life?
2. What type of society did they have
3. What did they dwell in?
4. What were their main activities?
5. Where did they live in Quebec?

Answer 5

1. Sedentary
2. Matriarchy
3. Long houses
4. Agriculture, fishing, hunting, gathering
5. St. Lawrence Valley

Question 6

Algonquian

1. What was their way of life?
2. What type of society did they have
3. What did they dwell in?
4. What were their main activities?
5. Where did they live in Quebec?

Answer 6

1. Nomadic
2. Patriarchy
3. Wigwams
4. Fishing, hunting, gathering
5. Central Quebec (Appalachians, Canadian Shield)

Question 7

Inuit

1. What was their way of life?
2. What type of society did they have
3. What did they dwell in?
4. What were their main activities?
5. Where did they live in Quebec?

Answer 7

1. Nomadic
2. Patriarchy
3. Wigwams and igloos
4. Hunting and fishing
5. Northern Quebec