Early Migrations
This strip of land once connected Asia to Alaska.
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
This was the first known civilization in Mesoamerica.
Who were the Olmec?
What was the ice age?
What is: a time when Earth had freezing temperatures and large amounts of water froze into huge ice sheets?
What did the Inca use instead of a writing system?
What are: Quipu (knotted strings)?
Lower sea levels caused by this Ice Age feature made the land bridge possible.
What are glaciers?
The Olmec are especially known for these large stone creations.
What are stone buildings and sculptures?
Movement of people or animals from one region to another.
What is migration?
If you were a member of the Aztec empire, this is one way you might gain wealth.
What is trade or tribute?
These people are believed to have crossed into Alaska between 38,000 and 10,000 BC.
Who were the Paleo-Indians?
This civilization built canals to control water in their cities.
Who were the Maya?
A group’s common values and traditions are called this.
What is culture?
Historians still don’t know why this civilization collapsed in the 900s.
Who were the Maya?
Paleo-Indians survived by doing this instead of farming.
What is hunting and gathering?
The Aztec capital city, founded in 1325, became the greatest city in the Americas.
What is Tenochtitlán?
The term for people who hunted animals and gathered wild plants for food.
Who are hunter-gatherers?
Imagine you lived in the Inca empire. What was one advantage of their roads?
What is easier travel and communication across the empire?
True or False: We know exactly when Paleo-Indians crossed into North America.
False: There are many theories, but the leading one is that people traveled across the land bridge on foot!
This South American empire built a vast system of roads and bridges.
Who were the Inca?
The climate and landscape surrounding living things.
What is environment?
Explain how different environments in the Americas influenced the development of societies.
Open-ended — hunting/gathering vs. farming, climate differences, etc.