Vocabulary
This civilization is the oldest that we have studied this week
Who are the Olmecs?
This is the region of the world where the Olmecs lived
What is Mesoamerica?
This is the crop Mayan agriculture was based on
The Aztecs came after this civilization
Who are the Mayas?
This is the longest river in North America
What is the Mississippi?
This civilization's capital was called Tenochtitlan
Who are the Aztecs?
The Olmecs developed one of the subjects you have each day
What is mathematics?
Maya civilization was a collection of these
What are city-states?
Before the Aztecs became a powerful empire, they wandered here as poor nomads
Where is the Central Valley of Mexico?
This is the largest mountain range in North America
What is the Rocky Mountains?
This is the term given to the era before Columbus arrived to the West Indies
What is Pre-Columbian?
This is the year the Olmecs first appeared
What is 1800 BCE?
The Mayans believed that humans were made from a dough made of these two things
What is corn and blood?
This is when the Spanish conquistadors arrived to the Americas
When is the sixteenth century?
The two states are not on the mainland of the United States of America
What are Hawaii and Alaska?
This civilization gave us a form of basketball
Who are the Maya?
This is what a farmer found in the late 1850s
What is a statue of a man's head?
This is where the Maya city-states flourished
Where is the Yucatan Peninsula?
This is another word for a series of artificial islands
What are chinampas?
This is the largest city in North America
What is New York City?
This was the land bridge that connected North America and Asia
What is beringia?
This is the term given to the Olmecs since they were the oldest advanced civilization in the region
What is mother culture?
This was the last Mayan city
What is Mayapán?
This image was important to the Aztecs and is on the Mexican flag today
What is the eagle, cactus, and snake
This is the mountain range we live in
What are the Appalachian Mountains?