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Kansas Chapter 2
Question | Answer |
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Big Game Hunters | Term referring to the group of early people who lived in Kansas named so due to the large animals they hunted |
Unknowns of BGH | Phrase referring to the fact that not much is known about the BGH because they did not keep written records, archeologists have not found many artifacts and archeologists have not been able to figure out the artifacts they have found |
Arrival of BGH | Phrase referring to the situation where the Big Game Hunters came from the north when the glaciers pushed south |
Game Hunted by BGH | Phrase referring to the mammoths, mastodons, and giant bison hunted by the Big Game Hunters |
Climate Change | Phrase referring to the event that occurred where the weather changed from mild to more extreme seasons during the year |
Adaptation of BGH | Phrase referring to the situation that occurred during the climate change where humans had to adapt by changing clothing and eating and hunting different things than before |
Technology of BGH | Phrase referring to the items like pottery vessels, bows and arrows, and the process of cultivation that the BGH developed over a period of time |
Effect of Technology on BGH | Phrase referring to the outcome of increased population of BGH due to their improved health because of the new technology developed |
Village Farmers | Term referring to the people who began living in permanent villages due to their newfound ability to cultivate crops, build permanent structures, and store food |
Historic Tribes | Term referring to the groups of people living in Kansas when European explorers came through, creating the first written record of the peoples of Kansas |
Plains Indians | Term referring to the Native Americans that lived on the plains who all had differing cultures and languages, but all lived in the same region and based their cultures on the land and animals around them |
Horses | Term referring to the animal that allowed Plains Indians to travel long distances and carry heavy loads |
Buffalo | Term referring to the animal that was seen as the "giver of life" by the Plains Indians because it provided food, shelter, and clothing, among other things |
Sedentary Tribe | Phrase referring to a certain type of tribe that lives in permanent villages |
Nomadic Tribe | Phrase referring to a certain type tribe that moves from place to place, having no fixed home |
Sedentary Homes | Phrase referring to the type of tribes that had homes comprised of grass, wood, or earth |
Nomadic Homes | Phrase referring to the type of tribes that had homes comprised of the skins of animals |
Sedentary Food | Phrase referring to the type of tribe that relied primarily upon the cultivation of crops into order to eat |
Nomadic Food | Phrase referring to the type of tribe that relied primarily upon buffalo meat into order to eat |
Sedentary Life | Phrase referring to the type of tribe that lived in Eastern Kansas because it had trees to build homes and fertile soil to grow crops |
Nomadic Life | Phrase referring to the type of tribe that lived in Western Kansas because it was where buffalo grazed and had land to gather wild crops |
Sedentary Tribes | Phrase referring to the Wichita, Pawnee, Kansa and Osage who all lived the same lifestyle |
Nomadic Tribes | Phrase referring to the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa, and Kiowa-Apache who all lived the same lifestyle |
Sedentary Exception | Phrase referring to the fact that even though this type of tribe lived in permanent homes they went out on hunts for large animals |
Nomadic Exception | Phrase referring to the fact that even though this type of tribe moved from one place to another they still gathered wild crops along the way |
Sedentary Trade | Phrase referring to the fact that this type of tribe had crops to barter with |
Nomadic Trade | Phrase referring to the fact that this type of tribe had meat to barter with |
Sedentary Culture | Phrase referring to the traditions carried out by a type of tribe that pierced their ears, tattooed their bodies, and shaved mohawks into their heads |
Nomadic Culture | Phrase referring to the traditions carried out by a type of tribe that covered their clothes with animal bones, painted their bodies, and painted animal skins to keep tribe history |
Increased Tensions | Phrase referring to the situation of rising problems between Native American tribes once Europeans and Americans began coming into the area |