Social Studies Review

Group of nomadic people of families that share a way of life, language, and customs.

• tribe

• Arawaks

• Caribs

Sled of wood, animal bones, baleen from the mouth of whales, and frozen fish.

• petroglyphs

• qamutik

• adobe

Wooden columns carved with figures of people and animals. It purpose was to represent the history of a family.

• qamutik

• petroglyphs

• totem poles

Mud mass mixed, sometimes with straw, molded in the form of bricks and dried in the air, which the indigenous people used to construct homes.

• casaba

• adobe

• qamutik

An indigenous group that migrated to the Antilles and the surrounding Caribbean region from Venezuela and Guianas.

• caribs

• nitaínos

• Arawak

Ocuppied the highest position.

• nitaínos

• cacique

• bohique

Indigenous nobles and warriors who governed the regions which formed the chiefdoms.

• Arawaks

• bohique

• nitaínos

They were hierarchically after the Nitaínos and in charge of organizing the areitos, communicating traditions, and healing the sick.

• bohique

• caribs

• naborias

The food of the Taínos. Edible, starchy tuber, used to make cassava bread.

• petroglyphs

• areitos

• casabe

Taíno working class that was in charge of fishing and hunting. Women worked in agriculture and raised children.

• bohique

• naborias

• caribs