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The Earliest Americans Vocabulary
Ancestor
a relative from long ago
Canyon
a deep valley between mountains, cut through the rock by river water
Clan
a group of people who believe they are descended from a c
common ancestor
Confederacy
a loosely organized group of states or tribes
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Hunter‐gatherers small groups of people who feed themselves by hunting animals and gathering plants
Ice Age
a period in Earth’s history when huge sheets of ice covered large parts of Earth’s Surface
Igloo
a dome‐shaped temporary shelter made from snow blocks
Mesa
Spanish word for “table,” meaning a rocky, flat‐topped hill
Northern lights
soft light that appears in the sky in northern lands, caused by the reflection of Sunlight
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Ice Age
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Earliest American Notes
What is Beringia?
North America
The land bridge that connected Asia to Who were the Inuit?
The people who lived in Beringia
Where did the Earliest
Americans come from?
Asia
Where did the native
people that discovered how to raise crops come from?
Mexico
What do you call an Inuit canoe?
Kayak
What is another name
for Anasazi?
Cliff Dwellers
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Where did the Anasazi live?
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The four corners
Why did the mound builders stay in one place? They were farmers
What did the Europeans
bring that caused Native Americans to die?
Germs
Which tribe built villages on the high
mesas?
Hopi
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Where did the Navjo and Apache migrate
from?
Northern Canada
Who were the Creek’s
ancestors? Mound Builders
Where did the Seminole live?
Florida
What did the 7 sides
of a Cherokee council
house represent?
Clans
What did Sequoyah write?
A set of symbols for writing Cherokee
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What are the 3 sisters?
Iroquois crops
What did the Iroquois live in?
long houses
Who were part of the Iroquois Confederacy?
Mohawk and Seneca
What does “smoking the peace pipe”
mean?
To sit down and talk calmly
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