Chapter Three Vocabulary

3. A ceremony, often religious.
9. American Indian The native tribes that the UnitedStates recognizes today.
10. Sisters Three crops – maize, beans, and squash – that were grown close together and supported each other with nutrients.
11. A tool that functions as a spear-thrower to catapult spears much further than by hand.
12. An American Indian culture that developed in Ohio around the year 800 B.C.
14. A type of rock often used in creating tools.
16. Large structures built with soil into large shapes.
18. Scientists who study artifacts to learn about people from the past.
19. ovens Pits dug into the groundthat trap heat and cook food.
20. Serpent Mound A large effigy mound inthe shape of a serpent made by a mound-building culture.
22. Age A period of time of colder temperatures.
23. Large mammals.

1. Wars A series of wars from 1629-1701 between the Iroquois and neighboring tribes.
2. A large American Indian group of tribes, sometimes known as the Five Nations.
4. period A period of time after the Ice Age ended.
5. An American Indian culture that developed in Ohio around the year 200 B.C.
6. A disease with a high infection and lethality rate, known for the pox scars that it leaves on survivors. Eradicated in 1979.
7. A group of people that lived between 22,000 B.C. – 8,000 B.C. around the world.
8. Hopewell Road Two sets of long, unbroken mounds that made a road from Newark to Chillicothe, Ohio.
11. An object made by a human being.
13. Confederacy A group of tribes that banded together to resist the Iroquois.
15. mounds Mounds that house the bodies of important Adena or Hopewell people.
17. People who move from place to place and never settle in one area for long.
21. mounds Mounds without any bodies buried inside and built in special patterns or shapes.