Early Humans
What is the term for someone who moves around from place to place in search of food?
What is a hunter-gatherer?
What are the names of the three Mesoamerican Civilizations?
Who are the Aztecs, Incas, and Maya?
The Inuit Tribe, who hunted whales and seals in very cold climates, lived in what region of North America?
What is the Arctic Region?
What is the Haudenosaunee?
These were the three "G"s that motivated early Explorers to go explore the world.
What is God, Gold, and Glory?
What is the name of the ice and land bridge that connected Siberia and Alaska thousands of years ago?
What is Beringia?
What Mesoamerican Civilization believed in human sacrifice and would perform that on the tops of their pyramid temples?
What are longhouses?
What are the "three sisters" in the Iroquois Culture?
What are corn, beans, and squash?
Name one of the inventions that early Explorers used to help navigate and explore the world.
What is the Astrolabe, the Magnetic Compass, or the Lateen Sail?
Why did early Humans cross the ice and land bridge between Asia and North America thousands of years ago during the last Ice Age?
Because they were following large animals that they were hunting.
What Mesoamerican Civilization was able to successfully perform brain surgery and was able to connect it's cities with rope bridges and paved roads?
Who are the Inca?
The Sioux Tribe of the Great Plains were nomadic hunters of the Great Plains that hunted what large mammal for their main food source?
What are the Buffalo or Bison?
What is the name of the first government made between the six Nations of the Iroquois?
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
Name one of the inventions created by one of the Mesoamerican Civilizations (You can choose either the Aztecs, Incas, or Maya).
What is (quipo, rope bridges, brain surgery, floating gardens, obsidian weapons, calendars, etc.)
What is Culture?
What Mesoamerican Civilization created pyramid temples and accurate calendars?
Who are the Maya?
The Pueblo Indians created their homes on the sides of cliffs in the deserts of Southwest America using which resource?
What are mud bricks?
What was the purpose of the Iroquois Confederacy?
To promote peace and to have a government to help organize the six tribes of the Iroquois to make laws and rules to live by.
Which two Mesoamerican Civilizations were conquered by Spanish Conquistadors?
Who are the Aztecs and the Incas?
Name three ways that early Humans adapted to their environment thousands of years ago in order to survive.
What is domesticating animals, hunting animals for food, making clothes out of furs and skins, learning how to farm, discovering fire, etc.
How did each of the Mesoamerican Civilizations come to an end or collapse?
The Aztecs and Incas were conquered by the Spanish, and the Maya collapsed because of a drought or famine.
The Tlingit Tribe, who lived in the Northwest Region of North America, created long wooden statues with animal faces on them to ward off evil spirits. What were the names of these long wooden statues?
What are totem poles?
What roles did men and women have among the Iroquois to help govern their people equally?
The men had the roles of chieftains and ruled, and the women voted on decisions made within the tribes.
Name two things that were exchanged between the "Old World" and the "New World" during the Columbian Exchange.
Diseases, apples, turkeys, cows, sheep, pigs, horses, vanilla, tobacco, beans, cacao (which can be harvested to make chocolate), pumpkins, corn, tomatoes, potatoes, pepper, avocados, and peanuts.