PreColumbian Vocabulary

A group that shares a common culture: ________

• CULTURE

• REGION

• SOCIETY

• LONGHOUSE

Adjusting, modifying, or changing of a person's conditions or life based on their environment: ________

• ADAPTATION

• MIGRATION

• REGION

• CULTURE

The movement of people from one region to another, usually over a long period of time: ________

• CULTURE

• SOCIETY

• REGION

• MIGRATION

Study of the unwritten past using artifacts, or remains of objects made by humans: ________

• ARCHAEOLOGY

• SOCIETY

• WIGWAM

• ADAPTATION

The way people live based upon a set of common values and traditions: ________

• MIGRATION

• ADAPTATION

• CULTURE

• ENVIRONMENT

Rectangular homes made from logs and bark that housed 8-10 Iroquois families: ________

• ADAPTATION

• TIPI

• WIGWAM

• LONGHOUSE

An area of land that has similar characteristics (ex: Great Plains): ________

• ARTIFACT

• REGION

• MATRILINEAL

• ARCHAELOGY

The relics or remains of objects made by humans: ________

• ARCHAELOGY

• ARTIFACT

• CULTURE

• MATRILINEAL

Societies that have people trace their ancestry through their mothers, not their fathers: ________

• MATRILINEAL

• PATRILINEAL

• MIGRATION

• ARTIFACT

A round hut built by Native Americans: ________

• WIGWAM

• ENVIRONMENT

• LONGHOUSE

• ADAPTATION