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| 1143958689 | Adena | An early Native American culture centered in the Ohio River valley from about the tenth century B.C. to about the second century A.D., noted for its elaborate burial mounds, and highly developed artistic style. | 0 | |
| 1143958690 | Anasazi culture | The culture that originated during the first century B.C. in the Four Corners area. | 1 | |
| 1143958691 | Archaic peoples | Native Americans who flourished in the US after 4000 B.C. | 2 | |
| 1143958692 | Aztecs | The empire that migrated from the north during the 13th century and settled on the shore of Lake Texcoco as subjects of the local inhabitants. | 3 | |
| 1143958693 | Cahokia | Area located near modern St. Louis, Missouri, where about twenty thousand people inhabited a 125-square-mile metropolitan area. | 4 | |
| 1143958694 | chiefdoms | Political societies in Mesoamerica where the earliest hereditary rulers exercised absolute power over a few closely clustered communities. | 5 | |
| 1143958695 | extended families | Extension of the nuclear family that included additional relatives. | 6 | |
| 1143958696 | Hohokam culture | The culture that emerged in the Southwest during the third century B.C., when ancestors of the Akimel O'odham and Tohono O'odham Indians began farming in the Gila and Salt River valleys of southern Arizona. | 7 | |
| 1143958697 | Hopewell | An early Native American culture centered in the Ohio River valley from about the second century B.C. to the fourth century A.D., noted for the construction of extensive earthworks and large conical burial mounds and for its highly developed arts and crafts. | 8 | |
| 1143958698 | Incas | The empire that conquered and subordinated societies over much of the Andes and adjacent regions after 1438. | 9 | |
| 1143958699 | Iroquois Confederacy | The council of chiefs from the Onondaga, Mohawk, Oneida, Cayuga and Seneca Iroquois nations. | 10 | |
| 1143958700 | Mesoamerica | Land that is now central and southern Mexico and Central America. | 11 | |
| 1143958701 | Mississippian | An early Native American culture formed in about A.D. 700 in the floodplains of the Mississippi River and noted for the construction of extensive earthworks and large conical burial mounds, religious ceremonies and for its highly sophisticated arts and crafts. | 12 | |
| 1143958702 | nuclear families | Families that consist of a husband, a wife, and their biological children | 13 | |
| 1143958703 | Paleo-Indians | The earliest Americans. | 14 | |
| 1143958704 | Poverty Point | The town on the lower Mississippi River that was the center of the Indian communities around 1200 B.C. | 15 | |
| 1143958705 | reciprocity | The mutual bestowing of gifts and favors. | 16 | |
| 1143958706 | states | Political societies in Mesoamerica where a ruler or government exercises direct authority over many communities. | 17 | |
| 1143958707 | wampum | Purple-and-white shells that laid in the dry lakebed that Hiawatha walked onto. | 18 | |
| 1143958708 | Ancestral Pueblo | were an ancient Native American culture centered on the present-day Four Corners area of the United States, comprising southern Utah, northern Arizona, northwest New Mexico, and a lesser section of Colorado. They lived in "houses" called pueblos in which they lifted up ladders when enemies attacked when they came near. best-known for the stone and adobe dwellings built along cliff walls, particularly during the Pueblo II and Pueblo III eras. Adobe structures are constructed with bricks created from sand, clay, and water, with some fibrous or organic material, shaped using frames and dried in the sun. | 19 | |
| 1143958709 | Chaco Canyon | An urban center established by Anasazi located in southern New Mexico. There, they built a walled city with dozens of three-story adobe houses with timbered roofs. Community religious functions were carried out in two large circular chambers called kivas. | 20 | |
| 1143958710 | mound-building culture, and Adena culture | Eastern Woodlands societies, which flourished from 1200 B.C.E.-1400 C.E.; included Poverty Point, Adena, Hopewell, and Mississippian | 21 | |
| 1143958711 | Hopewell and Mississippian cultures | Ohio and Illinois river valleys, ceremonial centers- Larger that Adena some contained 2 0r 3 dozen mounds within an enclosure of several miles squared, Elaborate burial goods, Primarily hunter/Gatherers. | 22 | |
| 1143958712 | Eastern Woodlands peoples | Many eastern Indians established populous villages and complex confederations well before adopting full-time, maize-based farming. Peoples: Iroquois & Algonquians ( grouped because of languages) | 23 | |
| 1143958714 | the Sun Dance | A ceremony the Sioux believed help keep the buffalo strong. | 24 |
