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Native Americans 8-1
Native Americans
Term | Definition |
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Eastern Woodlands | Lived on the eastern coast. The first Native Americans to encounter European settlers |
Flora | Plant life |
Fauna | Animal life |
Slash and Burn | Method of creating suitable farmland |
Three Sisters | Crops of Native Americans - corn, beans and squash |
Cherokee | Native Americans that lived primarily in the Blue Ridge region |
Catawba | Native Americans that lived primarily in the Piedmont region |
Yemassee | Native Americans that lived primarily in the Coastal region |
Palisade | A wall of sharpened logs, around a village, used for protection |
Wattle and Daub | Mixture of grass, clay and small branches to create walls of their houses |
Wigwams | Circular homes made of saplings covered with bark and grasses |
Blue Ridge | Mountainous land form region |
Coastal Zone | Location of the Yemassee tribe. Pron to bad storms and many tourists. |
Piedmont | Location of the Catawba tribe. Below the Blue Ridge land form region. |
Outer Coastal Plain | Flat and swampy land form region of SC |
Inner Coastal Plain | Land form region with the most fertile soil and rolling hills. |
Sandhills | Location of the state capital and old coastal sand dunes. |