Vocabulary I
This is a bowl shaped area.
What is a basin?
This is a cone shaped tent that North American natives lived in.
What is a teepee?
This is the continent that most historians believe natives immigrated from.
What is Asia?
This was how the Inca were able to farm in the mountains.
What is terrace farming?
These are the snow block houses that the Inuit natives live in.
What are igloos?
These are the mountains located in South America.
What are the Andes?
These are artificial islands built by the Aztecs for farmland.
What are chinampas?
This was the kind of agriculture used by the Mayans in the rainforest.
What is slash & burn agriculture?
These were the mountains the Inca people lived in.
What are the Andes?
This animal was very important to the plains natives.
What is the bison?
What is absolute monarchy?
These are strips of land cut into the mountainside to allow the Inca more farmland.
What are terraces?
This Mayan invention completely changed the world of mathematics.
What is the number zero?
These devices were used by the Inca to keep track of people and goods.
What are quipu?
This crop was important to all North American natives.
What is corn?
These are knotted strings that are used to keep records of people and goods.
This is a family unit that shares all their land and resources.
What is a ayllu?
This is how the Aztecs built a powerful empire.
What is conquering others and forming alliances?
This is what the climate was like in the Andes mountains.
What is cold with thin air?
This was the language that plains traders used to communicate when trading with other tribes.
What is sign language?
This is the Inca system of paying taxes through labor.
What is the mita system?
This is a Native American feast where the wealthy bought people together to give them gifts and food.
What is a potlatch?
This is something that the Aztec, Mayan, and Incan empires all had in common.
What is they used long distance trade routes?
These TWO things are what ended the Inca empire.
What is civil war and the Spanish invasion?
This is how horses came to the Americas.
Who were the Spaniards?