Vocabulary
People and Places
Facts about Mesoamerica
The Crossing
Empires/Civilizations
100
It is an agreement between people/nations to work together to gain protection or assistance.
What is an alliance?
100
The Olmec was the civilization to settle in the 1200s B.C.
What is the civilization that came in Mesoamerica in the 1200s B.C.?
100
Mesoamerica is an area in central America that includes Central America and Mexico.
What is Mesoamerica?
100
They crossed at about 10,000 to 40,000 years ago.
When did the first people cross the land bridge?
100
There were 3 civilization/empires in ancient Mesoamerica.
How many civilization/empires were there in ancient Mesoamerica?
200
It means it is open to the outside.
What does it mean when something is exposed?
200
It is in present-day Guatemala.
Where is Petén?
200
The land bridge theory is the theory that the first peoples came to the Americas from Asia through the Ice Age.
What is the land bridge theory?
200
The Olmec started at around 1200 B.C.
When did the Olmec empire/civilization start?
300
Sinkholes can collect water.
What can sinkholes collect?
300
He was a king of the city-state of Tikal.
Who is Jasaw Chan K'awiil I?
300
It means middle in Greek.
What does the word "Meso" mean in Greek?
300
Farming started in America about 10,000 years ago.
About when did farming start in America?
300
The first civilization in ancient Mesoamerica was the Olmec.
What is the first civilization/empire that started in ancient Mesoamerica?
400
It occurred about 10,000 years ago.
When did the last ice age occur?
400
It was Calakmul.
What is the city-state of Tikal's greatest enemy?
400
It was very helpful because there was rich soil and there was enough rain for good crops.
Why was Mesoamerica ideal for farming?
400
It is an ice bridge that created a passageway to America from Asia. named after Vitus Bering.
What is Beringia?
400
It started at around A.D. 100
When did the Moche civilization start?
500
A prediction is a guess on what will happen in the future, but an estimate is a guess based on evidence.
What is the difference between an prediction and an estimate?
500
They started off in the Yucatán Peninsula.
Where did the Maya start off?
500
The crop was corn/maize.
What is the most important food in the Mesoamericas?
500
What were animals that early Americans hunted?
The early Americans hunted woolly mammoth, antelope, caribou, and bison.
500
They were replaced by the Inca.
What was the Moche replaced by?
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