first americans vocab Flashcards
(14 cards)
from 70.000 B.C. to about 10,000 years ago, when glaciers covered most of N. America.
ice age
the way of life of a group of people-including housing, clothing, language, food and customs.
culture
Also called the land bridge. Land connecting Asia and N. America, once above water but now
under the Bering Sea. The first Americans migrated over the land bridge while following their food (animals).
This is how the first people reached N. America!
berengia
“new stone age”, the time around 8,000 B.C., when people learned to
produce their own food.
Neolithic age
someone who moves around for place to place with no permanent home. Hunting and gathering
people are usually this
nomads
scientists who study the early remains and cultures of humans.
archeologists
objects made by early people, which can give clues about the past.
artifacts
the average weather of a place over a year.
climate
Different areas of the United States that share common physical
characteristics…such as the great plains, Rocky Mountains, and Great Basin.
physical regions
groups of related families.
clans
villages-stone homes built in the sides of mountains by the Anasazi people of the Southwest—
environment affects culture
pueblos
DROUGHT-long periods of time with little or no rainfall. Hurts farming, unless irrigation is used.
drought
a sun-dried mud brick used to build the homes of the Hopi and Anasazi in the Southwest
adobe
