1.2 Native American Societies Before European Contact

Select the area where Indians were sedentary hunter-gatherers, relying on the abundant resources of the ocean and salmon-filled rivers

Select the area where Indians built large pueblo structures such as Chaco Canyon. Their large and powerful civilizations were based on maize agriculture and established trade networks as far away as southern Mexico.

Select the area where Indians were mostly sedentary farmers, but sometimes shifted to a hunting and gathering lifestyle with the changing seasons.

Select the area where Indians lived a largely nomadic hunter-forager lifestyle, with large herds of American Bison being their primary resource.

A large city that developed in the Mississippi River valley.

• Chaco Canyon

• Mesa Verde

• Cahokia

• Tenochtitlan

Which Native American region had the largest impact on the environment due to deforestation and construction of irrigation projects?

• Southwest

• Pacific Northwest

• Great Plains

• Northeastern Woodlands