BJU American Republic Chapter 1
Amerigo (Vespucci) - ✔️✔️gave proof that the land Columbus found wasn't the Orient,
but a a "new world"; who the new world was named after (JUST FIRST NAME)
Great Basin and Plateau - ✔️✔️nomadic; lived in teepees, brush huts, hogans; ate
buffalo, nuts, berries; known for petroglyphs
nomadic - ✔️✔️Native lifestyle; constantly on the move for searching
settled - ✔️✔️Native lifestyle; staying in one place, content where they lived
Woodland(s) - ✔️✔️settled; lived in wigams; food: fish, maize, squash, hunted animals;
known for great mounds, alliances
Plain(s) - ✔️✔️nomadic; lived in teepees; food: buffalo, seeds, berries, roots; known for
powerful tribes
Southwest - ✔️✔️settled; lived in adobes, cliff dwellings; food: small animals, wild
plants; known for advanced pottery and weaving
West Coast - ✔️✔️settled; lived in cedar houses; food: salmon, oysters, other fish;
known for totempoles
mounds - ✔️✔️made of earth; filled with weapons, pottery, jewelry; often used as
tombs; used for religious ceremonies
adobe - ✔️✔️dried clay and straw mixture; used by the SW Natives for their houses
totem poles - ✔️✔️carved from large trees; depicted local legends, important events;
pictured local gods; others marked the gravesites of important leaders; used by the
West Coast Natives
animism - ✔️✔️the belief that sprits live in objects in nature
Vikings - ✔️✔️courageous seamen from northern Europe; the first to visit North
America around AD 1000
(Leif) Ericson - ✔️✔️best known of the Viking adventures; found a new land (the US)
and named it Vinland
Amerigo (Vespucci) - ✔️✔️gave proof that the land Columbus found wasn't the Orient,
but a a "new world"; who the new world was named after (JUST FIRST NAME)
Great Basin and Plateau - ✔️✔️nomadic; lived in teepees, brush huts, hogans; ate
buffalo, nuts, berries; known for petroglyphs
nomadic - ✔️✔️Native lifestyle; constantly on the move for searching
settled - ✔️✔️Native lifestyle; staying in one place, content where they lived
Woodland(s) - ✔️✔️settled; lived in wigams; food: fish, maize, squash, hunted animals;
known for great mounds, alliances
Plain(s) - ✔️✔️nomadic; lived in teepees; food: buffalo, seeds, berries, roots; known for
powerful tribes
Southwest - ✔️✔️settled; lived in adobes, cliff dwellings; food: small animals, wild
plants; known for advanced pottery and weaving
West Coast - ✔️✔️settled; lived in cedar houses; food: salmon, oysters, other fish;
known for totempoles
mounds - ✔️✔️made of earth; filled with weapons, pottery, jewelry; often used as
tombs; used for religious ceremonies
adobe - ✔️✔️dried clay and straw mixture; used by the SW Natives for their houses
totem poles - ✔️✔️carved from large trees; depicted local legends, important events;
pictured local gods; others marked the gravesites of important leaders; used by the
West Coast Natives
animism - ✔️✔️the belief that sprits live in objects in nature
Vikings - ✔️✔️courageous seamen from northern Europe; the first to visit North
America around AD 1000
(Leif) Ericson - ✔️✔️best known of the Viking adventures; found a new land (the US)
and named it Vinland
