Calvert History 5th grade Block 1
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- The Bering Strait
- How the first Native Americans came to North America from Asia.
- How did we learn about the lifestyle of the first Americans?
- By archaeologists digging where the people once lived.
- Iroquois
- Lived in the Eastern Woodlands. Were hunters and farmers. Formed a league of tribes.
- What are the marks of a civilization?
- Cities, trade, government, writings, art, and science.
- Name three things that affect history?
- People, events, Geography
- What is history?
- It is our past.
- Name three ways we learn about the past?
- Orally,written,pictures and Archaeologists.
- Aztec
- Built a huge empire. Made human sacrifices. Tenochtitlan was their capital.
- Maya
- Lived in the Yucatan. Priests very important. Had a written language. Chichen Itza was an important city.
- What is a portable house made of buffalo hides, used by the Plains Indians?
- tepee
- What is the order in which events occur?
- chronological
- What is an object used to study cultures?
- artifact
- Inca
- Lived in mountains of South America. Great builders. Cuzco was their capital.
- Who is a person who studies plants and animal remains, ruins of buildings, and other objects?
- archaeologist
- What is the abbreviation that means "in the year of our Lord" and is used in dates after the birth of Christ?
- A.D.