North American Indians
Cultures Of
Meso America
Ancient Civilizations
Iroquois Nation
Geography
100
These eldest woman in the Iroquois tribes chose the tribal chiefs.
Who were the clan mothers?
100
The Mayan civilization was able to stock pile large amounts of this crop.
What is corn?
100
This practice worried many of the people who were conquered by the Aztecs.
What is human sacrifice?
100
The Iroquois occupied this region of North America.
What is the Eastern Woodlands?
100
Lief Eriksson landed on this present-day land and created the temporary settlement of Vinland.
What is Newfoundland?
200
The Inuit people occupied this region of North America.
What is the Arctic region (Northern Canada & Alaska)?
200
According to Incan medicine, the treatment of malaria required the use of this naturally occurring alkaloid.
What is quinine?
200
The Europeans introduced these to the people of the Americas and they proved to be very detrimental (harmful).
What are diseases? The Spanish brought with them small pox, influenza, the common cold etc. These sicknesses wiped out large population of indigenous people.
200
The translation of this Iroquois word means "people of the long house".
What is Haudenosaunee?
200
The Mayan empire inhabited this geographic location in Mexico.
What is the Yucatan Peninsula?
300
The Anazazi and later the Pueblo people made their houses out of these sun-dried bricks.
What were adobe?
300
The Incas inhabited the land that is now this long, South American country.
What is Peru?
300
The Aztec city of Tenochtitlan was created in the center of this lake.
What is Lake Texcoco?
300
In order to establish peace among the many Iroquois people they created one of these.
What is a confederation?
300
The early migration theory known as the "Clovis Theory" states that the first Americans migrated a land bridge linking this country and this current US state.
What are Siberia and Alaska?
400
The introduction of this animal from Europe (Spain) greatly influenced the life of the Native Americans who lived on the Great Plains.
What is the horse?
400
The Aztec city of Tenochtitlan was built on the spot of this prophecy.
What is an eagle clutching a snake, resting on a cactus?
400
This civilization built stone causeways stretching over 3,000 miles as a way to link the many cities that existed in their empire.
What is the Incan civilization?
400
This was the last Iroquois tribe to be added to the Iroquois Nation in 1715, during the French and Indian War.
What is the Tuscarora?
400
Early peoples that traveled with a food source are considered to be these.
What are nomads?
500
The early Mississippian people built mounds for this purpose.
What is burying important people (religious and political leaders)?
500
Many historians credit the Mayans with creating a very accurate one of these.
What is a calendar?
500
This Spanish Conquistador was responsible for defeating the Aztec empire and causing the death of Montezuma II.
Who is Hernando Cortez? Montezuma thought Cortez was a god and allowed him to enter the city.
500
The formation of the Iroquois Confederacy, also known as The Great Peace, was North America's first example of this type of government.
What is a representative democracy?
500
These three countries make up the bulk of Scandinavia.
What are Norway, Sweden, and Finland?
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