USA HISTORY

FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE

NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of these was a strong influence on the kind of shelters used by each American Indian group?
A
wealth
B
climate
C
religion
D
education
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Native Americans lived in a wide variety of homes. Different tribes and peoples built different types of homes. What kinds of homes they lived in depended on the materials that they had available where they lived. It also depended on the kind of lifestyle that they lived as well as the environment.

Detailed explanation-2: -Native American peoples throughout the Western region determined their unique lifestyle by their proximity and abundance of natural resources.

Detailed explanation-3: -They used animal skins (deerskin) as clothing. Shelter was made from the material around them (saplings, leaves, small branches, animal fur). Native peoples of the past farmed, hunted, and fished. They used natural resources such as rock, twine, bark, and oyster shell to farm, hunt, and fish.

Detailed explanation-4: -The people nearest the Arctic Ocean relied on temporary houses called igloos in winter, when they moved onto fresh ice fields in search of seals. Caribou hunters and lake and river fishermen used igloos on land. An igloo was usually dome-shaped and made from blocks of snow.

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