Adobe Building Material Made from Dried Clay Mud

Chapter Four Study Guide

1. Adobe building material made from dried clay mud

1. Allies friends that support one another

1. Anthropologistsscientists who study and compare peoples to learn how they lived and have lived

1. Archaeologist scientists who studies human remains to learn how people lived in the past

1. Beringia the land bridge that Paleo-Indians are thought to have crossed into North America

1. Buffalothe most important animal to the Plains Indians who hunted them on the Plains.

1. Matrilineal traced through the mother’s side of the family

1. Mitotes all-night celebrations held by the Coahuiltecans

1. Paleo-Indians the first Americans

1. Precontact the time before Europeans arrived in the Americas

1. Tepeesmoveable homes made from animal hides stretched over long poles

1. Hunter-gatherers Native American groups that hunt small game and gather nuts and berries to survive

1. Comancheria The land including northern and western Texas that extends up into Colorado that is sacred to the Comanche
2. Maize American Indian word for corn

1. Artifacts tools, weapons, and other objects made by people

1. Nomadspeople who move from place to place mostly hunting food

1. Crop rotation (also, what tribe used it?)the Caddo employed crop rotation as not to deplete the soil of essential nutrients by over production.

Short Answer:

1. Where do scientists believe the first people to live in North America came from? Asia

1. What did the Paleo-Indians hunt successfully? Mammoth the size of elephants

1. In what form can Texans see left by the earliest Indians?Rock art

1. Due to the Texas climate, how did the Coahuiltecan support themselves?They became hunter-gatherers

1. Who made decisions about family in Caddo villages?women

1. What animals did the Plains Indians rely upon? The buffalo and the horse

1. Indians developed a more complex society with the introduction of what? farming

1. Why did Native Americans move on to the plains?To follow and hunt buffalo

1. What area of Texas did the Comanche control? Northern and western Texas

1. What was the most important crop for Native Americans? corn

1. What river did the Jumano build their villages? The Rio Grande

1. How did Texas get its name? The Caddo Hasinai word for “friend”