WorksheetsMississippian People & Great Plains Native Americans
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 11mins
How can archeologists tell that the Mississippi people had a diverse trading network?
Items that were not natural to the area were found, like shells, obsidian, copper, and mica.
Maps were found that showed very detailed trade routes.
Evidence showed that canoes were used all over the rivers to trade goods like shells, obsidian, copper, and mica.
Native Americans wrote down stories that told us about it.
What is an "effigy mound" or "geo form"?
Mounds that had many animals buried in them.
Mounds that had the Great Sun buried in them.
Mounds that were of geometric shapes and were covering the skeletons of dead bodies.
Mounds that looked like specific animals that had flattops.
What do architectural historians believe the relationship in between the mound shapes and the spaces around them?
They believe that the shape of the mound and the space around the shape of bears, serpents, or birds.
They believe that the shape of the mounds and the space around the Great Sun.
They believe that the shape of the mounds and the space revolves around cosmology; the sunrise and sunset, solstices and equinoxes, and the underworld.
What are the links between the Mississippi sites and the Mesoamerican sites? Choose all that apply
pottery with graphics of human sacrifice
evidence of ball games and sun worship
evidence of gold
evidence of skull deformation
evidence of hieroglyphs
DeSoto was the first European explorer to discover Native American settlements in the Mississippi core area.
True
False
The botanist who visited the Yuchi and Creek Indian villages in the 1700s made connections between ceremonial courtyards, ball fields, and winter council houses. He suggested that they might be constructions of the Mississippian descendants.
Albert Gallatin
William Bartram
Hernando DeSoto
Antoine Le Page du Pratz
Explorer theorized that the mound builders had migrated from Mexico because they had corn and horticulture techniques.
Hernando DeSoto
William Bartram
Albert Gallatin
Antoine Le Page du Pratz
Explorer who spent four years among with Natchez. He drew sketches of the burial ceremony of the Great Sun and the strangling of his wives. He noticed the tattooed serpent and wooden bird effigies decorated in the roofs.
Hernando DeSoto
William Bartram
Albert Gallatin
Antoine Le Page du Prat
What do historians think the cause of the Cahokia demise was?
Depletion of resources
The political and economic power were challenged or weakened.
Climate changes and disease were a factor.
It is possible that it was a combination of the above.
True or False: As the largest prehistoric Indian site north of Mexico, Cahokia Mounds covered about 4000 acres and included at least 120 mounds.
True
False
What were some reasons why the Great Plains Native Americans were nomadic? Check all that apply.
Winters were extremely cold and summers were very hot dramatic weather events.
They were always chasing their food because they hunted buffalo, deer, elk, and antelope.
It was part of their religion that they were not to stay in one place for too long.
They had horses to help them get from one place to another so traveling was not difficult.
They were in constant was with other tribes so they had to stay on the go.
A ceremony held by the Great Plains Native Americans in which they would pray to their creator for aid. It was held in the summer and men would buffalo hunt.
The Hunters Dance
Sun Dance
Buffalo Dance
The Great Creators Dance
What was the best part of the buffalo according to the source in your packet?
Rawhide
Muscles
Tail
Brains
Tongue
What types of homes did the nomads of the Great Plains Native Americans live in?
Wigwams
Tipis
Plank Houses
Adobe Mounds
An ancient doctor, healer, or priest, they were called upon for religious ceremonies.
Priest
Shaman
Great Sun
Travois
_________________ refers to the areas of central and southern Mexico as well as areas of Central America.
North America
Mesoamerica
Equatorial Guinea
Canada
The _______________ were known for engineering, architecture, mathematics, and astronomy.
Incans
Mayans
Aztecs
Excellians
The _______________ culture built great cities around flat, pyramid-shaped mounds.
Missourrian
Alabaman
Mississippian
Plains
The ________________ Peoples, including the Cherokee, Choctaw, and Cherokee, descended from the Mississippians and built cities around a central square.
Southwestern
Anasazi
Waxahatchee
Southeastern
The natives of _____________ left their towns and became nomadic buffalo hunters and master horesemen.
the Great Plains
New England
Mesoamerica
Canada
What are two main advantages of teepees?
They had an easily recognized cone shape.
They were easy to move from place to place.
They were made from easy-to-find materials.
They could easily be decorated by Plains women.
They provided good protection from an enemy attack.
