People
Places
Vocabulary
Events
Everything Else
100

People who move from place to place.

Nomad

100
Village.

pueblo

100

Scientific method used to determine the age of an artifact.

Carbon Dating

100

Period of extremely cold temperatures.

Ice Age

100

An item left behind by early people that represents their culture.  

artifact

200

A type of government that links different groups together.

federation

200
What did the Hopewell People build?

The Great Serpent Mound

200

Society ruled by religious leaders.

theocracy
200

Long period of time without rainfall.

drought

200

An ancient form of writing, using pictures and symbols. 

hieroglyphics
300

Who studied the stars, moon, and sun, and came up with a 365-day calendar?

Mayans

300

What was the name of the land bridge that ran from Asia to Alaska?

Beringia

300

What is an early form of corn?

maize

300

The most recent Ice Age began how many years ago?

100,000

300
Raised piece of land with the top leveled off so that it can be farmed. 

terrace

400

All the Inca land belonged to the ______?  Who was a descendant of the sun god.

emperor

400

Olmec workers sculpted large stone monuments and built stone pavements and ...?

drainage systems

400

Stone tools, weapons, baskets, carvings are examples of what?

artifacts

400

What was a large (shaggy cow- as one Spaniard described it) animal hunted by the people of the Great Plains?

buffalo

400
During the last Ice Age, the large sheets of ice that covered the earth were called?

glaciers

500

The Inuit people built what kinds of dwellings and hunted seals, walrus, whales, and caribou.  

igloos = NOT nomads!

500

What was the huge capital the of the Aztec people?

Tenochtitlan

500

What word describes the movement of a large number of people into a new homeland?

migration

500

When the first Americans arrived, they found huge mammals such as what?

Mastodons

Woolly Mammoths

Saber-tooted Tigers

500

What is the name for the type of map that shows rivers, mountains, oceans, etc.?

physical map

600

The people of ancient Mexico formed communities and developed common customs, beliefs, and...?

ways of protecting themselves

600

What was one of the largest cliff dwellings that held thousands of people?

Mesa Verde

600

What tribes belonged to the Iroquois and Cherokee federations? 

Mohawk

Seneca

Onondaga

Oneida

Cayuga

600

Which group of early Americans believed in human sacrifice?

Aztec

600

Which two groups organized their societies around religion?

Mayans and Aztecs

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