During the ice age, this land bridge allowed travel by foot from Asia to the Americas.
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
100
floating gardens
What are chinampas?
100
Where did Columbus think he was traveling when he "discovered" America?
What are the Indies?
200
Person with no permanent home who travels from place to place
What is a nomad?
200
Literally "feathered serpent." He was the god of learning and agriculture for the Teotihuacanos.
Who is Quetzalcoatl?
200
Person of mixed race, especially Spaniard and Native American
What is mestizo
300
The change when people started settling down and farming instead of hunting and gathering
What is the agricultural revolution?
300
A ruler of the Toltecs, with a lighter complexion. He took the name of a god, and promised to return. This affected how the Aztecs treated Cortes and Spanish when they arrived.
Who is Quetzalcoatl?
300
Deliberate killing of an ethnic or cultural group of people
What is genocide?
400
This man wrote about Columbus's experiences in the Caribbean
Who is Bartholome de Las Casas?
400
In Mayan math: a dot, a stick, and a shell represent these values
What is one, five, and 20 or zero
400
What killed 95% of the indigenous people of the Americas?
What is disease (germs)?
500
This word means native to a place or region
What is indigenous?
500
Name three accomplishments of the Maya Civilization