study question chapter 1:

1. People of the north: The Inuit were able to survive in cold climates by making igloos and making warm clothing.
People of the west: The Tlingit, Haida and Chinook were able to live off the forest and were able to preserve salmon by smoking it over fire pits.
People of the southwest: descendants of the Anasazi formed the Hopi, Acoma and Zuni they were mainly farmers but they also made a new way to make houses out of sun dried mud called adobe.
People of the plains: they were nomads, which means that they travelled around constantly and carried around mobile homes called tepees that were tent like structures and they were some of the first people to use horses in warfare.
People of the east and southwest: The Iroquois and Cherokee had men as well as women in position of power where in other tribes women were treated like nothing.

2. I think that there was a lot more types of culture and when Columbus and the English got there a lot of people died and most.

3. The Onondaga, Seneca, Mohawk, Oneida, and Cayuga made them up in the late 1500's to make peace and not wipe each other out.

4. symbols or pictures to represent things, ideas, and sounds. The mayans used them.

5. They built square houses called hogans.

6. Maize (which is only CORN!!!)