Vocab
A narrow Passage of water Between two larger bodies of water
What is Strait?
Around 10,000 years ago, people in the area now known as Mexico learned to plant an early Form of corn called....
What is Maize?
These changes led some early Americans to give up hunting and turn to farming.
What are climate change and the extinction of large animals?
The Maya, Aztec, and Inca are all considered this type of advanced society.
What are civilizations?
The introduction of this animal changed life on the Great Plains by making hunting and travel easier.
What is the horse?
To supply water to crops by artificial
What is irrigate?
Lower sea level exposed a strip of land- a "land bridge known as....
What is Beringia?
This innovation by the Inca allowed them to farm on mountainsides.
What are terraces?
Place these civilizations in order: Olmec, Maya, Aztec, Inca.
What is Olmec → Maya → Aztec → Inca?
In Bernal Díaz’s account, Aztec nobles spread cloths for Montezuma to walk on to show this.
What is respect and reverence for their ruler?
A society that is rules by religious leaders
What is Theocracy?
Scientists believed early people traveled to North America form...
What is Asisa?
Farming changed nomadic life because it allowed people to do this.
What is settle in one place and form permanent villages?
This empire expanded its power through war and demanded tribute from conquered peoples.
What is the Aztec Empire?
According to the Iroquois constitution, the “roots of the Tree of Great Peace” represent this.
What is peace spreading in all directions?
A form of writing that uses symbols or pictures to represent things, ideas, and sounds
What is Hieroglyphic?
This powerful alliance of Native American groups was created to promote peace and cooperation, with leaders chosen by clan mothers.
What is the Iroquois League?
One reason people migrated from Asia to the Americas was in search of this.
What is food?
This leader greatly expanded the Inca Empire in the 1400s.
Who was Pachacuti?
Towns and complex societies tended to grow among farmers rather than hunter-gatherers because farming created this.
What is a surplus of food?
Person who moves from place to place
What is a nomad?
These objects were made by humans and help archaeologists learn about the past.
What are artifacts?
Farming changed nomadic life because it allowed people to do this.
What is settle in one place and form permanent villages?
Groups of related families who lived together, like those in the Iroquois League, were called this.
What are clans?
Scientists use this method to determine the age of ancient artifacts and remains by measuring the amount of radioactive carbon they contain.
What is carbon dating?