NATIVE AMERICANS
My actions have a positive or negative effect on my life and the lives of others around me.
Factual Question: What happened to the Native Americans and the Europeans as a result of European Exploration?
Conceptual Question: Do your actions always have a positive or negative reaction?
Debatable Question: Do good intention always have a positive outcome? Explain your answer using an example from your life or a current event.
1. NATIVE AMERICAN ASSIGNMENT 1 - 16
Movie - Section #1 - Watch the video about Native Americans. Then answer questions 1 - 7.
1. How long ago did Native Americans begin arriving in the Americas?
2. How many different cultures of Native Americans are there?
3. How did the Plains Indians hunt for buffalo?
4. What wiped out entire tribes of Native Americans?
5. Where were Native Americans forced to live in the late 1800s?
6. How many tribes are recognized by the US Federal Government? (Hint: More than . . . . )
7. List two examples of rights that Native Americans activists are pushing for:
2. How many different cultures of Native Americans are there?
3. How did the Plains Indians hunt for buffalo?
4. What wiped out entire tribes of Native Americans?
5. Where were Native Americans forced to live in the late 1800s?
6. How many tribes are recognized by the US Federal Government? (Hint: More than . . . . )
7. List two examples of rights that Native Americans activists are pushing for:
Map - Section #2- Use the Map below to answer questions 8 - 13.
8. What is the title of this map?
9. According to this map, what three tribes live in the Utah area?
10. List two tribes that live in the California area:
11. What area of the United States do the Seminole live? (state)
12. What tribe do you think Massachusetts named their state after?
13. List one tribe that lives in Alaska:
9. According to this map, what three tribes live in the Utah area?
10. List two tribes that live in the California area:
11. What area of the United States do the Seminole live? (state)
12. What tribe do you think Massachusetts named their state after?
13. List one tribe that lives in Alaska:
Map - Section #3 - Use the map below to answer question #14.
14. Label the following map:
Maps - Section #4: Use both maps to answer the following questions:
15. What three Native American tribes live in the Great Basin area?
16. What Native American tribe lives along the Northwest Coast?
15. What three Native American tribes live in the Great Basin area?
16. What Native American tribe lives along the Northwest Coast?
2. NATIVE AMERICAN ASSIGNMENT 17 - 44
We will be talking about the Native Americans all year. For this unit, we are going to learn about three powerful tribes that lived in Latin America; the Aztecs, Mayans, and the Incas.
THE AZTECS
Link - Section #5: Use the links on each number to answer questions 17 - 23:
17. As the Aztecs wandered across the deserts and mountains of Mexico, what did the larger tribes call the Aztecs? They were called "dog people".
18. What was the promised sign the Aztecs were looking for?
19. What is symbol is on the Mexican flag?
20. What did the Aztecs name their city?
21. Explain the Aztec ball game?
22. What did the Aztecs eat?
23. What were the Aztec craftsmen skilled at creating?
18. What was the promised sign the Aztecs were looking for?
19. What is symbol is on the Mexican flag?
20. What did the Aztecs name their city?
21. Explain the Aztec ball game?
22. What did the Aztecs eat?
23. What were the Aztec craftsmen skilled at creating?
Movie - Section #6 - Watch the video below about floating gardens. After watching the video, answer questions 24 - 29.
24. The capital of Mexico, Mexico City, is built on top of what?
25. How did the Spanish drain the swamp where the Aztecs once lived?
26. Do any floating gardens still exist?
27. Do people in Mexico still use floating gardens?
28. How are the floating gardens, or chinampas, kept in place?
29. How many Aztecs were able to live in the Tenochtitlan, because of the floating gardens?
25. How did the Spanish drain the swamp where the Aztecs once lived?
26. Do any floating gardens still exist?
27. Do people in Mexico still use floating gardens?
28. How are the floating gardens, or chinampas, kept in place?
29. How many Aztecs were able to live in the Tenochtitlan, because of the floating gardens?
Link - Section #7: Use the links on each number to answer questions 30 - 44.
30. How did the Aztecs get to their capital city of Tenochtitlan? The Aztecs used canals and canoes.
31. Who was Ahuitzotl? 32. What pyramid did Ahuitzotl have built and who was the pyramid dedicated too? 33. Under Moctezuma, what was the population of the Aztec Empire? The population was about 25 million. 34. Draw the social class pyramid of the Aztecs. Look to the right! 35. What subjects did all schools teach? (list two) 36. What did the boys learn about in school? (list two) 37. What did the girls learn about in school? (list two) 38. Who had to pay a tax or tribute to the Aztec government? 39. What social class controlled all the other classes? Look at the pyramid again! 40. Who carried the heavy loads of goods that that the merchants would sell? The slaves carried the heavy loads. 41. How many miles would the slaves carry their loads? Slaves carried the loads over 200 miles. 42. What did the Aztecs sacrifice to their gods? 43. Why did the Aztec warriors want to take a lot of captives? 44. Why did the surrounding tribes help the Spanish defeat the Aztecs? They didn't want to pay tributes, be sacrificed, and be controlled by the Aztecs. |
The picture below answers 34 and 39.
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3. NATIVE AMERICAN ASSIGNMENT 45 - 64
Movie - Section #8: Watch the video as a class. Answer 45 - 64 as you watch the movie.
45. Where was the Aztec Empire located? (north to south)
46. What was the population of their empire?
47. True or False: The Aztec capital was once the largest city in the world.
48. Where did the Aztecs originally come from?
49. How many years did the Aztecs spend looking for a place to build their homes?
50. Why did the Aztecs believe in sacrificing people? (think sun)
51. What symbolic meaning did the eagle perched in a cactus have for the Aztecs?
52. How many people lived in the Aztec capital at the time of the Spanish arrival?
53. List two accomplishments of the Aztecs
54. Why did Aztecs willingly sacrifice themselves?
55. Why did the Aztecs not immediately destroy Cortez and the Spanish?
56. How did Cortes communicate with the Aztecs?
57. Why did the Aztecs believe the Spanish were barbaric?
58. Why do you think Moctezuma welcomed Cortes as a god?
59. Why to you think it took so long for the Aztecs to rebel against Cortes?
60. Do you think the Spanish or the Aztecs killed Moctezuma? Explain your answer:
61. Why did many of the Spanish drown?
62. What happened to the Aztecs after the Spanish left?
63. What happened to the capital city of the Aztecs?
64. What is buried under Mexico City?
46. What was the population of their empire?
47. True or False: The Aztec capital was once the largest city in the world.
48. Where did the Aztecs originally come from?
49. How many years did the Aztecs spend looking for a place to build their homes?
50. Why did the Aztecs believe in sacrificing people? (think sun)
51. What symbolic meaning did the eagle perched in a cactus have for the Aztecs?
52. How many people lived in the Aztec capital at the time of the Spanish arrival?
53. List two accomplishments of the Aztecs
54. Why did Aztecs willingly sacrifice themselves?
55. Why did the Aztecs not immediately destroy Cortez and the Spanish?
56. How did Cortes communicate with the Aztecs?
57. Why did the Aztecs believe the Spanish were barbaric?
58. Why do you think Moctezuma welcomed Cortes as a god?
59. Why to you think it took so long for the Aztecs to rebel against Cortes?
60. Do you think the Spanish or the Aztecs killed Moctezuma? Explain your answer:
61. Why did many of the Spanish drown?
62. What happened to the Aztecs after the Spanish left?
63. What happened to the capital city of the Aztecs?
64. What is buried under Mexico City?
4. NATIVE AMERICAN ASSIGNMENT 65 - 68
Bradfield's PowerPoint - Section #9: As a class learn, listen to your teacher blab about the Mayans.
65 through 68 - Take notes while your teacher blabs.
5. NATIVE AMERICAN ASSIGNMENT 69 - 89
Map - Section #10- The map below shows the Inca Empire. Use this map to answer 69 - 70.
69. The Incas built a huge empire. What continent was it on?
70. List the countries that the Inca empire covered:
70. List the countries that the Inca empire covered:
Pictures - Section #11: The pictures below show the Inca city, Macchu Picchu. Use the pictures to answer questions 71 - 74.
71. Why do you think the Incas were called the "Sky People"?
72. What mountain range is this?
73. Look at the pictures above and explain how the Incas were able to grow crops on the tops of the mountains:
74. Why do you think the Incas chose to live in the mountains?
72. What mountain range is this?
73. Look at the pictures above and explain how the Incas were able to grow crops on the tops of the mountains:
74. Why do you think the Incas chose to live in the mountains?
Pictures - Sections #12: Use the pictures to answer questions 75 - 76.
75. The Incas built bridges and roads that connected their empire. Why were bridges and roads both a positive and negative thing for the Inca's empire?
76. Would you dare walk across the bridge that the Inca's built? Explain.
76. Would you dare walk across the bridge that the Inca's built? Explain.
Movie - Section #13- Watch the movie below and answer questions 77-83.
77. Why did the Pizarro want to conquer the Incas?
78. True or False: The Incas had performed surgery on head injuries.
79. Who inspired Pizarro?
80. How did small pox cause a civil war among the Incas?
81. How do you think the civil war helped the Spanish?
82. Who controlled the Inca empire?
83. What did the Incas do with the king after he died?
78. True or False: The Incas had performed surgery on head injuries.
79. Who inspired Pizarro?
80. How did small pox cause a civil war among the Incas?
81. How do you think the civil war helped the Spanish?
82. Who controlled the Inca empire?
83. What did the Incas do with the king after he died?
Movie - Section #14 - Watch the movie below and answer questions 84-89:
84. Who owned all the Inca land?
85. What types of food did the Incas grow?
86. How did the Incas get their news?
87. Why didn't the Inca king fear the Spanish?
88. Why do you think the Inca king let the Spanish stay in his city?
89. Why did the Inca king decided to visit the Spanish?
85. What types of food did the Incas grow?
86. How did the Incas get their news?
87. Why didn't the Inca king fear the Spanish?
88. Why do you think the Inca king let the Spanish stay in his city?
89. Why did the Inca king decided to visit the Spanish?
6. NATIVE AMERICAN ASSIGNMENT 90 - 93
Bradfield’s PowerPoint - Section #15: Listen to your teacher blabber to answer questions 90-93.
90 through 93 - Take notes while your teacher blabs.