North American Civilization
What did American Indians possess a deep faith in?
Supernatural
How many environmental zone make up the middle region?
3
What was the western border composed of?
Steep mountains and valleys
What term means several families and sharing common customs?
Tribes
Who often lived in small villages consisting of 2-3 clans/families
Pueblo Indians
What is a stele?
Upright stone slab.
What are quipu used for?
Accounting and recording data.
What groups of Indian languages believed to have had a single ancestral language
Language families
What did the Indians build the villages out of?
Adobe,Sun dried brick
What was each citystate ruled by?
A god-king
Where is the reigning Inca king descended from?
What is it called when several tribes lived near each other and share similar customs?
Culture areas
What 3 areas did Eastern woodland tribes settle?
Mississippi Tennessee Ohio
What did mayans believe supported the sky?
A Cebia tree.
How did Incas pay their debts or taxes?
Forms of goods or doing labor.
What is the ice or land bridge?
Beringia
How tall were the Indian burial mounds?
30 FT
According to the Aztec myths, what did the gods do to create mankind and the world?
Sacrificed themselves to create the world, the sun and used their blood to created mankind
What is the Inca religion consisted of? (Name 4.)
Nature worship, primitive fetishism, animism, and magic.
What precise calendar did the Mayan culture form?
Long calendar