N. America
Buildings/Structures
Mesoamerica
Mesoamerican Concepts
Terms/Names
100
Indigenous people native to the Arctic region of N. America living as hunter-gatherers.
Who are the Inuit?
100
Famous lodging and meeting structure built by the Iroquois.
What were the long houses?
100
Earliest Mesoamerican culture noted for the huge basalt rock heads representing former rulers.
Who were the Olmecs?
100
Written onto bark paper the Mayan book system.
What was the Codex?
100
The culture can place limitations on the environment through innovations or new technologies.
What is possibilism?
200
The Iroquois organized their 5 nations into this loose alliance system for unity.
What was a confederation?
200
Built from adobe brick and multistory for living quarters.
What were pueblos?
200
Known as the "Birthplace of the Gods" located in the Valley of Mexico.
Where is Teotihuacan?
200
The famous feathered serpent god in Mesoamerican mythology.
Who was Quetzalcoatl?
200
The oldest crop cultivated in Mesoamerica.
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What is corn or maize?
300
The tepee was customary house for this type of Indian group living in the American West that hunted buffalo.
What was the Plains Indians?
300
The famous Serpent Mound built in Ohio belonged to this prehistoric Woodland culture.
Who were the Hopewell?
300
Their classical period featured many city-states and pyramid structures located in the Yucatan Peninsula.
Who were the Maya?
300
The nickname of the Olmec people.
Who were the Rubber People?
300
Another name for the Creek Indian chiefs of the Muscogee tribe.
Who were the micos?
400
These Indians originally inhabited the southwest in such places as Mesa Verde and Grand Chaco Canyon but mysterously disappeared.
Who was the Anasazi?
400
Wooden walled fortifications built to protect the Mississippian settlements.
What were the palisades?
400
Centered in Tula this ancient civilization existed near present day Mexico City.
Who were the Toltecs?
400
The Mayan calendar projected this view about history similar to the Chinese.
What was the cyclical view?
400
Prehistoric rock spear head used by the Paleo-Indians to hunt large game.
What was the Clovis Point?
500
Prehistoric Indian culture thrived in the SE noted for their flat-topped shaped pyramid structures.
Who were the Mississippians?
500
Provides protection against the Arctic weather conditions.
What is the igloo?
500
Tenochtitlan became their capital city built upon Lake Texcoco.
Who were the Aztecs?
500
The floating gardens of the Aztecs.
What were the Chinampas?
500
Name of the theory that supported the arrival of Native-American ancestors to the Americas during the Ice Age.
What was the Land-Bridge Theory?