Name the 5 themes of geography
What are movement,region, human environment interaction, ocation and place?
The name of the land bridge the first Americans crossed.
What is the Bering Land bridge?
(Crossed the Bering Strait)
These Olmec artifacts were made out of basalt boulders.
What are sculptures of Olmec ruler's heads?
These crops were grown to be sold.
What are cash crops?
The ancient civilizations in the Americas believed in worshipping many different gods. This type of religion is called...
What is polytheistic?
The 2 different types of location.
What is Absolute and relative?
People who migrate from place to place in search of food.
What are hunters-gathers?
This was used as payment when trading in the markets.
What are cocoa beans?
The primary goal of many explorers during the Age of Exploration.
What is Gold, God and Glory?
Which hemisphere is Africa located in?
What is all four?
1570 Broadway,Hewlett,NY is an example of which type of location.
What is absolute location?
Explain how agriculture changed the daily life of the people in the Americas.
What is they stopped moving and started planting and harvesting crops?
The Aztec used this type of farming.
What are chinampas?
An animal introduced to the Americas that was helpful to the Native Americans.
What is the horse?
This ship was important to explorers because of of its speed and maneuverability.
What is a caravel?
Trade and the spread of information and ideas are examples of which theme.
What is MOVEMENT?
Explain the second theory of how the first Americans moved from Asia into the Americas.
What is the traveled by canoe along the Pacific coast?
This civilization has the most advanced writing system. Explain why.
What are the Maya? They had over 800 glyphs that were used to represent words and sounds.
Enslaved people were part of this passage.
What is the middle passage?
These continents were involved in the triangle trade.
What are Africa, Europe, and the Americas?
Building dams, burning fossil fuels, digging wells and using solar energy sources are examples of...
What is HUMAN ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION?
There are 7 characteristics of civilization. Name one.
What is
agriculture
cities
specialized trade
written language
artwork
religion?
This happened to the Sapa Inca, after he died.
What is he was mummified and treated as if he was alive?
A disease brought by Europeans that had a major impact on Native American populations.
What is smallpox?
This explorer mistreated the Taino.
Who is Christopher Columbus?