EARLY MISSOURIANS

EARLY MISSOURIANS WE WANT TO BE MILLIONAIRES!!

How to Play • The class works as a whole to win a million dollars! • Each contestant plays a question • The contestant hears the question and may get help by: --phone a friend --survey the audience --50/50

Vocab MatchAsk for a definition card. Find its matching word. $5000 each word-$80,000

What’s the word? • A relative or family member who lived before you, any generation before

What’s the word? • to grow from seed to harvest

What’s the word? • The use and/or management of resources. It most often concerns how early cultures acquired and used resources for basic needs such as food, clothing, and shelter, but also involves the study of trade and exchange.

What’s the word? • A time before history was recorded in writing

What’s the word? • part of a culture, including its transportation, shelter, weapons, containers, utensils, tools, and shelter

What’s the word? • a spiritual leader who provided medical assistance

What’s the word? • is a distant relative to the modern elephant. It stood 7 to 10 feet tall and weighed four to six tons. They ate mainly trees, shrubs, and herbs in forests and woodlands. Remains of this extinct American Ice Age mammal are found throughout North America.

What’s the word? • a native American invention; a weaving that hangs between two trees to provide a place to rest

What’s the word? • all about an area: its climate, plants, and animals

What’s the word? • A process by which human beings tame wild animals and change the nature of plants. Native Americans tamed wolves and in doing so created the dog. They also cultivated some plants, eventually changing the plant's natural distribution, seed size, and its ability to reproduce.

What’s the word? • A family member from a later generation, one who comes AFTER you

What’s the word? • a particular way of life. It includes every part of life such as food preferences, tool making, clothing, language, marriage practices, and religion

What’s the word? • a native American invention; a first water transportation

What’s the word? • An object made or used by a human being.

What’s the word? • a spearthrower, first used by Archaic Indians to provide more power and length to a spear’s throw

Name the groups that met Europeans and tell one way they were all alike-$250,000

They changed from contact with Europeans, used horses, used guns, had division of labor-$250,000

Name the groups in time order$500,000 • Ice Age • First cultivation • First bow and arrow, pottery, and corn planting • Large flat-topped mounds with plazas

Name the groups in time order$500,000 • Ice Age • First cultivation • First bow and arrow, pottery, and corn planting • Large flat-topped mounds with plazas Paleo-Indian Archaic Woodland Mississippi

What we have from Native Americans--$750,000 • Name at least FIVE contributions Native Americans have made to our Missouri culture

Native American contributions • Words: papoose, tomahawk, hominy • Inventions: canoes, hammocks, parkas, moccasins, pipe • Foods: squash, corn, beans, potatoes, tomatoes • Place names: MO, MS, Niangua, Meramec, Wyandotte

How Europeans affected Native Americans--2 contestants for $900,000 • Name positive changes in Native Americans’ lives • Name negative effects of contact with Europeans

Positive --new goods, metal objects: kettles, knives, guns --cloth, glass beads --animals: horse, sheep, cattle Negative --hunted more animals than needed for food and clothing in order to trade -- new diseases killed thousands --had to rely on Europeans because they gave away their own products (furs for blankets) Changes due to contact

Name the social scientist:$1,000,000 • Studies human remains and artifacts to determine how people lived in the past

Archaeologists

How will people of the future know how YOU lived today? • Test Nov. 15??

EARLY MISSOURIANS