Geography and Environment
This region is described by deserts, hot days, cold nights, and few trees.
What is the Southwest?
A people’s shared values, beliefs, traditions, and behaviors.
What is culture?
This Mesoamerican civilization lived along the gulf coast of present-day Mexico and is known for early cultural achievements.
Who were the Olmec?
The movement of people into a new area.
What is migration?
Skilled hunters and fishers from the far north.
Who are the Inupiat, Yupik, and Inuit?
The Great Plains extend from the Rocky Mountains to this river.
What is the Mississippi River?
A group of people who have a common ancestor; often organized within larger societies.
What is a clan?
This civilization developed a 365-day calendar and made advances in mathematics and astronomy.
Who were the Maya?
People who move from place to place and do not settle permanently.
What is nomadic?
This confederation created the Great Law of Peace and organized itself into clans
Who are the Iroquois?
During the Ice Ages, much of Earth's water was locked in these, causing ocean levels to drop.
What are glaciers?
A society ruled by religious leaders is called this.
What is a theocracy?
A highly developed society with organized cities, specialized labor, and often complex political structures.
What is a civilization?
Lower sea levels during ice ages exposed a land bridge between Asia and North America called this.
What is Beringia?
Which of these groups lived farthest south: Inupiat, Ute, Inuit, or Yakama?
What is Yakama?
A broad platform of flat land cut into a slope used for farming in hilly regions (often by early Americans).
What is a terrace?
A large Native American structure that housed many people, common in the Southwest.
What is a pueblo?
Which group built hundreds of channels for irrigation and lived in present-day Central America?
Who were the Maya?
The main reason early peoples migrated across land and water routes.
What is to find food sources?
Name the first plant food cultivated in the Americas commonly considered a staple crop.
What is maize?
This is a system that supplies water to crops by artificial means and helped some civilizations farm in dry regions.
What is irrigation?
A form of writing that uses symbols or pictures to represent things, ideas, and sounds.
What are hieroglyphics?
This group of farmers and traders had networks that may have stretched hundreds of miles and influenced other cultures.
Who were the Hopewell?
Describe one archaeological or environmental theory for how the first peoples reached the Americas.
What is crossing Beringia during lower sea levels?
One result of the Iroquois Great Law of Peace that changed political organization among member nations.
What is an alliance organized into clans?