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Social Studies-CMS 7
Final Exam Review Iroquois-Very Very Very HELPFUL-
Term | Definition |
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Artifact | Something made by humans |
Iroquois | Known as people of the longhouse |
Clan | A group of people who trace their family to a common ancestor |
Culture | The total way of life of a group of people |
Extended Family | Nuclear family plus aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents |
Bering Strait Land Bridge | A narrow piece of land that used to exist between North America and Asia which is now the Bering Strait |
Longhouse | The type of house used by the Iroquois |
Matrilineal | The mother's side of the family |
Myth | A story used to explain something in nature |
Nuclear Family | Mother, father, children |
Pre-Columbian | Before Christopher Columbus |
Pre-historic | Before written history |
Reservation | Land set aside or given to Indians |
Siblings | Brothers and sisters |
The 3 Sisters | Corn, beans and squash |
Tobacco | Used by the Iroquois in ceremonies |
Tuscarora | The 6th nation to join the Iroquois Confederacy |
Five nations | Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk |