Unit 1 Flashcards
Which continent did First Peoples come from?
Asia
Which province did First Peoples come from?
Siberia
Why did First Peoples cross the land bridge?
To follow their food source
Who were the first, First Peoples, to cross the land bridge?
Mongoloids
What was the name of the land bridge?
Beringia
What is the current name of this geographical location?
Bering Strait
Where did the land bridge end?
Alaska
Where were the first pieces of evidence found?
Yukon
How did the land bridge form?
Water evaporated and returned to land as ice/snow. Dried up the ocean floor.
What weapon was used to determine the travels of First Peoples?
Spear points
What allowed the First Peoples to move south?
The melting of ice during the Ice Age
Which province did the First Peoples travel south through?
Alberta
How far south did the First Peoples eventually get to?
Southern point of South America
How did the First Peoples adapt to the cold?
built shelters, made fire, and made clothes from animal fur
Four distinct types of First Peoples and where they originated from.
- Negroid - Africa
- Caucasoid - Europe
- Mongoloid - Asia
- Australoid - Australia
Characteristics of the Inuit
igloos, muktuk (whale blubber and skin for food), ulus (skinning knife), kayaks and umiaks, inukshuks, meat usually eaten raw
Characteristics of the SubArctic
lean-tos, relied on berries, caribou, tumpline, toboggans, semi-nomadic
Characteristics of NW Coastal Peoples
cedar to make houses/canoes, longhouses, totem poles, salmon, not farmers due to abundance of food, wild forest animals, unique marriage system (husband pays for wife; she can leave after child born), potlatches
Characteristics of Plateau Peoples
pit house, salmon weirs, dugout canoes,
Characteristics of Plains Peoples
Mb/Alb/Sask, tipis, pemmican, buffalo, Sundance
Characteristics of Eastern Woodland Farmers
longhouses, Three Sisters (corns, beans, squash), Green Corn Festival, Feast of the Dead,
Characteristics of Eastern Woodland Hunters
Wigwam, Birch trees and uses, weren’t able to reply on agriculture due to short growing season, Wampum Belt, Kitchie Manitou
Who was Eric the Red?
Leif Erikson’s father who established a settlement in Greenland (named Greenland to entice people to settle there)
What did Leif Erikson do?
Explored beyond Greenland by following the coast north and then crossing over the Labrador Sea to current day Baffin Island and then down to present day Newfoundland
What settlement did the Vikings create in northern Newfoundland?
L’Anse aus Meadows
What was traded between the Vikings and the First Nations?
Metalware for furs
Why did Leif Erikson leave the New World after 3 years?
His father was ill
Europe was heavily invested in the spice trade. Why?
Salt allowed for meat preservation, but spices were also used as currency, perfume…
Besides salt, what were some other items of interest?
Textiles, tea, coffee, opium, silk, porcelain, exotic stones, gold, silver