Out of Many: A History of the American People Chapter 1 Flashcards

Hey, guys, here is some flashcards for class. So, yay! Order goes as followed first vocabulary, then quick review, then ap prep test where * marks the start of a new section.

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1614645313	Cahokia	one of the largest urban centers created by Mississippian peoples, containing 30,000 residents in 1250	0
1614645314	transoceanic migrations	a population migration across oceans	1
1614645315	Beringia	a subcontinent bridging Asia and North America, named after the Bering Straits	2
1614645316	Athapascan	A people that began to settle the forests in the northwestern area of North America around 5000 B.C.E.	3
1614645317	Clovis tradition	a powerful new and sophisticated style of tool making, unlike anything found in the Old World	4
1614645318	Pleistocene Overkill	intensified hunting efforts brought on in response to lowered reproduction and survival rates of large animals	5
1614645319	Archaic period	the period roughly 10,000 to 2,500 years ago marked by the retreat of glaciers	6
1614645320	clans	groups of allied families	7
1614645321	Mesoamerica	the region stretching from central Mexico to Central America	8
1614645322	Aztecs	a warrior people who dominated the Valley of Mexico from 1100 to 1521	9
1614645323	Rancherias	dispersed settlements of Indian farmers in the Southwest	10
1614645324	Kachinas	impersonations of the ancestral spirits by Southwest Indians	11
1614645325	*The Earliest Americans	-no single physical type characterized the peoples of the Americas -migration from Asia began about 30,000 years ago -stone age hunters brought tools and animals with them on their journey	12
1614645326	*The Clovis Tradition	-emerged around 10,000 B.C.E. -a new and powerful style of tool making -Clovis artifacts found throughout North and Central America	13
1614645327	*Forest Living	-Eastern North American (was) a vast forest -Indian communities took advantage of rich forest resources -Indians developed settled forest communities	14
1614645328	*Mesoamerica	-Mesoamerica was the birthplace of agriculture in North America -Olmecs: first literate urban culture in region -Mayan civilization flourished between about 300 B.C.E. and 900 C.E.	15
1614645329	*The South	-mild, moist climate -Indian peoples of the South farmed, fished, and hunted -peoples of the South shared agricultural festivals	16
1614645330	*The Northwest	-varied geography of plains, mountains, rivers, lakes, and valleys -the Iroquois have lived in the region for 4,500 years -population growth and intensification of farming led to the development of chiefdoms	17
1614645331	**When Europeans arrived in North America at the beginning of the sixteenth century:	Indians had developed a variety of disparate cultures and languages	18
1614645332	**Studies that compare DNA have revealed a close genetic relationship between American Indians and the people of	Asia	19
1614645333	**Recent archaeological evidence has led some scholars to conclude that early migration in North America:	occurred by water as people used boats to travel along the western coastline of the continent	20
1614645334	**Scholarly research leads to the conclusion that Clovis technology:	dramatically improved agricultural production and led to significant population growth	21
1614645335	**A major event that occurred in North America during the Archaic period was:	the end of the Ice Age and the retreat of the glaciers	22
1614645336	**The "miracle crops" that first emerged in North America were:	maize and potatoes	23
1614645337	**When using the term "resisted revolution," historians are referring to:	the refusal of some Indian groups to shift to an agricultural society	24
1614645338	**An extraordinary example of complex and sophisticated mound-building society was:	um idk I think Hopewell	25