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Chapter 3 and 4
Prehistoric American Indians and historic American Indians
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Archaeologist | scientists who studies artifacts to learn about people from the past |
| artifacts | an object made by a human being |
| Paleo Indians | a group of people that lived between 22,000 BC to 8000 BC around the world |
| Ice Age | a period of time of colder temperatures |
| nomadic | people who move from place to place and never settle in one area for long |
| megafauna | large mammals |
| flint | a type of rock often used in creating tools |
| Archaic Period | a period of time after the Ice Age ended |
| atlatl | a tool that functions as a spear thrower to catapult spears much further than by hand |
| Great Serpent Mound | a large effigy mound in the shape of a serpent made by a mound building culture |
| rituals | a ceremony, often religious |
| Adena | an American Indian culture that developed in Ohio around the year 800 BC |
| Earth ovens | pits dug into the ground that trap heat and cook food |
| Hopewell | an American Indian culture that developed in Ohio around the year 200 BC |
| Mound | large structures built with soil into large shapes |
| burial mounds | Mounds that house the bodies of important Adena or Hopewell people |
| Great Hopewell Road | two sets of long, unbroken mounds made from a road from Newark to Chillicothe Ohio |
| Effigy Mounds | Mounds without any bodies buried inside and built in special patterns or shapes |
| Three Sisters | three crops- maize, beans, and squash- that were grown close together and supported each other with nutrients |
| smallpox | a disease with a high infection and lethality rate known for the pox scars it leaves on survivors. Eradicated in 1979 |
| Iroquois | a large American Indian group of tribes, sometimes known as the five nations |
| Beaver Wars | a series of wars from 1629 to 1701 between the Iroquois and neighboring tribes |
| Anishinaabeg Confederacy | a group of tribes that banded together to resist the Iroquois |
| Historic American Indian | the native tribes that the United States recognizes today |
| hunting and fishing grounds | a place where tribes hunt wild animals |
| wigwam | cabins made with a wooden frame of curved poles and large pieces of tree bark and/or cattail reads as walls |
| long house | houses made to house several tribal families |
| dialect | a person style of speaking spoken in a region or by a group of people |
| totem | sacred animals that symbolized a clan |
| Matrillineal | when one traces their family through the only their mother's side of the family rather than through both their mother and father's side |
| pow wow | a sacred gathering that began in the 1800s |
| regalia | decorative clothing |
| Robert de la Salle | a French explorer who believed to have been the first European explorer in Ohio |
| colony | a settlement of people who have left their country to settle in a specific area still owned by their home country |
| French | a person from the country of France in the continent of Europe |
| British | a person from the island of Great Britain and island off the coast of Europe. the countries of Wales, Scotland, and England are all part of the island. People often use the term English and British as synonymous |
| Tanaghrisson | an American Indian chief of the Seneca Tribe who lived during the 18th century |
| militia | a group of regular citizens trained to fight |
| George Washington | the first president of the United States. Was originally a colonial commander of the Virginia militia, later the Commander in Chief of the Continental Army |
| Ohio country | and area from Western Pennsylvania to Indiana that included most of Ohio |
| French and Indian War | a conflict from 1754 to 1763 between Great Britain, France, and American Indian tribes |
| 7 Years War | an that spanned almost every continent and most European countries 18th century conflict that spanned almost every continent and most European countries. The French and Indian War was part of this larger conflict |
| Treaty of Paris of 1763 | the treaty that ended the French and Indian War. France turned over their trading and diplomatic rights to the British for the region east of the Mississippi River. It gave Great Britain control of most of North America. |
| Coalition | a temporary Alliance |
| Pontiac's War | uprisings of American Indian tribes over the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1763 |
| Pontiac | An Ottawa chief that was one of the major leaders during pontiac's war |
| stalemate | when neither side of a conflict wins or loses |
| Proclamation of 1763 | a proclamation from the King of Great Britain that stopped all:ists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains |
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