North Carolina - Chapter 2 Review
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- Define: Ancestor
- People from whom one is descended.
- Define: Anthropologists
- Scientists who study human cultures.
- Define: Archaeologists
- Scientists who study items left behind by ancient peoples.
- Define: Clan
- Groups of people who believed themselves related by blood.
- Define: Culture
- Ways of life.
- Define: Tribe
- Is a group of people who share a common ancestry, language, name, and way of living.
- Define: Artifacts
- Items as pieces of stone, bone, pottery, and tools to discover how the people lived.
- Define: Atlatl
- A sort stick which helped them throw spears with more force.
- Define: agriculture
- Farming
- Define: Dialects
- A regional form of language.
- What were the three (3) spoken language families?
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1. Algonquian
2. Iroquoian
3. Siouan - Archaeologists have grouped the pre-contact peoples into for cultures. Please list the four cultures in order.
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1. Paleo - culture lasted about 10,000 years ago.
2. Arachic - culture covers the period from about 10,000 to about 2,500 years ago.
3. Woodland - culture developed about 1000 BC to 1000 AD.
4. Mississippian - Culture started about 700 AD to about 1300. - What is the difference between the Pre-contact and Post-contact Indians.
- Pre-contact records are based on the findings of archaeologists. Post-contact records are based on the findings of the Europeans after making contact and maintaining records about them.
- What is the signifiance differnce between the Pre-contact and Post-contact Indians.
- Pre-contact records are based on the findings of archaelologists. Post-contact records are based on the findings of the Europeans after making contact and maintaining records about them.