Name _________________________________________ _________Hr. ______ Date _________________________
Kansas Journey (study guide)
Early People: Migration and Adaptation (Chap. 2)
Define the following terms:
1. Absolute Dating:
2. Adaptation:
3. Artifact:
4. Barter:
5. Celestial:
6. Currency:
7. Domesticate:
8. Infer:
9. Migration:
10. Nomadic:
11. Oral Tradition:
12. Parfleche:
13. Relative Dating:
14. Travois:
1. The time line is from 7000 B.C. to A.D. 1900. How many years does this cover? (24-25)
Use the time line to answer the following: (24-25)
2. What began happening in 7000 B.C.?
3. What happened from 7000 B.C. - A.D. 1?
4. What happened between 6500 B.C. – 3500 B.C.?
5. From what people is our state named? (26)
6. Describe the story of the Great Spirit. (26)
7. Name three technological changes of the early people. (28)
____________________ vessels improved food storage; The _________ and arrow replaced the
_____________ (begins with an “a”) and improved hunting performance; And the process of
______________________.
8. Recreate the diagram that shows how American Indians used buffalo stomach and stones to heat food. (28)
9. Explain the difference between relative dating and absolute dating? (29)
Relative Dating
Absolute Dating
10. What evidence do we have that the village farmers lived in permanent villages? (32)
11. How did the American Indians use a system of barter? What did the French and Indians trade? (32)
12. What advantages did the horse bring to the Plains Indians?
13. Explain the similarities and differences in Wichita and Pawnee housing?
Pawnee
Similarities
Differences
14. What did the Osage use instead of tipis during the buffalo hunt?
15. Name at least three ways the Plains Indians used the buffalo.
1.
2.
3.
16. Give a definition of nomadic, and explain how the term describes some of the Plains Indians.