AR History Chapt. 5

Question 1

A written record of past events, people, and places

Answer 1

History

Question 2

Students or scholars who study written records of a time or produce such records

Answer 2

Historians

Question 3

Existing before written history

Answer 3

Prehistory

Question 4

Scientists who carefully uncover objects left behind by earlier people. They are able to judge how and when people lived by putting together the physical clues from artifacts found. Their field of study is called archaeology.

Answer 4

Archaeologists

Question 5

Those who study race, social relationships, culture, origin, and physical characteristics of human beings.

Answer 5

Anthropologists

Question 6

Tendency or slant toward one side of a story without considering alternative viewpoints. Unfairness, favoritism, or prejudice.

Answer 6

Bias

Question 7

An abbreviation for the Latin term anno Domini, meaning ‘in the year of the Lord.’

Answer 7

AD

Question 8

An abbreviation for ‘before Christ’ used to describe the period of time before the birth of Christ.

Answer 8

BC

Question 9

A certain point in time from which a number of years is determined.

Answer 9

Era

Question 10

A division of time within an era.

Answer 10

Period

Question 11

A period of time in which behavior, rituals, and/or customs are shared or passed down verbally or by example and are continuous.

Answer 11

Tradition

Question 12

The land around the mouth of a river built up by the river as it deposits silt or soil as it empties into the sea. In Arkansas and Mississippi, the entire flatland region of alluvial soil on either side of the Mississippi River is called the ‘Delta.’

Answer 12

Delta

Question 13

Sheets of snow and ice that never completely melt, even in the midst of summer.

Answer 13

Glaciers

Question 14

The use of historic objects and artifacts to study and/or determine activities and lifestyles of humankind throughout history.

Answer 14

Archaeology

Question 15

A mammal similar to an elephant with shaggy, thick hair, and long, curved tusks.

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Woolly Mammoth

Question 16

An ancestor of the modern elephant that lived in the Pleistocene era, or during the Ice age.

Answer 16

Mastodon

Question 17

A mammal (a relative of the bear family) that lives in trees; hands upside-down from branches, always keeping its back to the ground; eats fruits and leaves; and moves very slowly.

Answer 17

Sloth

Question 18

A large, hoofed animal, weighing 350 to 900 pounds. A close relative to the primitive horse or rhinoceros. Hunted for its tough hide and meat.

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Tapir

Question 19

Early, primitive, or ancient

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Paleo

Question 20

Soils left behind by streams and rivers. the Mississippi Alluvial Plain covers much of eastern Arkansas and is referred to in Arkansas as ‘the Delta.’

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Alluvial

Question 21

Native people of Arkansas who were less nomadic than their ancestors, baked primitive bread, and developed the atlatl and adze.

Answer 21

Archaic Tradition

Question 22

A tool used by the early Indians for throwing spears.

Answer 22

Atlatl

Question 23

A tool similar to an ax, with the blade attached crosswise to the handle, that was used to carve a canoe out of a whole log.

Answer 23

Adze

Question 24

Prehistoric Native Arkansans who made advances in agriculture and communication via rock art and lived in bluff shelters of the Ozark Mountains.

Answer 24

Woodland Tradition

Question 25

plants grown during the Native periods that produced herb-like leaves, berries, and oily seeds.

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Goosefoot, Marsh Elder, Sumpweed

Question 26

A stone native to Arkansas that is especially heavy because it contains iron.

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Hematite

Question 27

A stone native to southwestern Arkansas that is a natural sharpening tool and used to make arrowheads and other weapons or tools. Known and traded widely among the Indian tribes of the eastern United States, it is still very much in demand today.

Answer 27

Novaculite

Question 28

Great farmers who built plazas in the center of the village and developed sophisticated bows and arrows and pottery.

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Mississippian Tradition

Question 29

Water-filled circular ditches surrounding a building or set of buildings, usually designed to protect the building from attack.

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Moats

Question 30

A weak o diluted cereal or porridge made with water.

Answer 30

Gruel

Question 31

Describing a person who is from the continent of Europe who is not of African or Indian (Native American) descent.

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European

Question 32

Native American people who lived in the southern and western parts of the state, known for family farms, mound building, personal tattooing, and the sait trade.

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Caddos

Question 33

Descendants of the ancient Sioux tribe, who moved down the Mississippi River to live in Arkansas. the name of our state comes from a translation of their name, meaning ‘downstream people.’

Answer 33

Quapaws

Question 34

Tribe of southwest Missouri that hunted in northern and northwestern Arkansas who sometimes had conflicts with the Quapaws and Caddos.

Answer 34

Osages

Question 35

A Quapaw village.

Answer 35

Kappa