Civilizations of Mesoamerica
Name one of the two ways that we believe people used to get to the Americas?
What is a Land Bridge or Boats
The first Andean cultures started as?
What are fishing villages
The large city built by the Mississippian cultures?
What is Cahokia
Northwest ceremony where a person gives gifts instead of receiving them?
What is a potlatch
Practiced Human Sacrifice
Who are the Aztecs
What is the Native American word for Corn?
What is Maize
The capital of the Incan Empire?
What is Cuzco
Name two of the 5 original members of the Iroquois league?
What are the Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca and Mohawk
Artificial islands that the Aztecs used?
What are chinampas
A mixture of clay and plant fibers used as building materials?
What is Adobe
What was the name of the earliest American civilization?
Who are the Olmec
Leaders of Incan villages were known as?
What is an Ayllu
What group lives in the "Frozen World"?
Who are the Inuit
A collection of knotted colored string used to represent numbers?
What is a quipu
They built the geoglyphs?
Who are the Nazca
The Mayan civilization formed around these?
What are City-States
What is the name for an Incan emperor?
What is the name of the largest Anasazi Pueblo?
What is Pueblo Bonito
Spanish name for the free standing villages of the Anasazi?
What are pueblos
Confederation of 6 tribes that had a council and clan mothers?
Who are the Iroquois
The tall columns that the Mayans built to honor their gods and nobles?
What are Stelas
What did the Incan's use to unify their empire?
What are roads
Name the three crops commonly grown by early North American people groups?
What are Beans, Squash, and Corn
Large underground chamber used for Anasazi religious ceremonies?
What is a kiva
Their name means vanished ones?
Who are the Hohokam