Creating America
Across
- 2. a canoe of a type used originally by the Inuit, made of a light frame with a watertight covering having a small opening in the top to sit in
- 8. At its peak, it was one of the largest states in African history.
- 9. the practice of cultivating plants and livestock
- 11. Outside their community they are known as an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of First Nations peoples in northeast North America/Turtle Island
- 13. the coldest of all the biomes
- 14. the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry
- 17. the process of taming an animal
- 19. the supply of water to land or crops to help growth, typically by means of channels
- 20. was by tradition, along with Jigonhsasee and Hiawatha, the founder of the Haudenosaunee, commonly called the Iroquois Confederacy
- 21. is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and Togo in the east.
Down
- 1. a person who studies human history
- 3. the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively
- 4. the stage of human social and cultural development
- 5. largest ethnic group in West and Central Africa, who speak the Hausa language
- 6. move from one region or habitat to another according to the seasons
- 7. Abrahamic monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran
- 10. A number of pre-Columbian cultures
- 12. relating to or denoting a method of agriculture in which existing vegetation is cut down and burned off before new seeds are sown, typically used as a method for clearing forest land for farming
- 15. Many ______ are now Christians or Muslims, but aspects of their traditional religion survive.
- 16. of or based on kinship with the mother or the female line
- 18. an object made by a human being