Early
Continent from which the earliest peoples coming to the Americas migrated from
What is Asia?
Beginning of agriculture in Mexico
What is 7000 B.C.?
Outstanding feature of the Olmec's religious practices was worship of this god
What is the jaguar?
Chavin named after...
What is the major ruin in the highlands?
A cultivated cereal grain that bears its kernels in large ears
What is maize?
Ancient land bridge
What is Beringia?
The earliest known Mesoamerican civilization that flourished around 1200 B.C.
Who are the Olmec?
Hummingbird (Nazca Line drawing) represented
What is the mountain god?
A civilization on southern coast of Peru (200 B.C. to A.D. 600) known for their large drawings on desert floor
Who are the Nazca?
An area that extended from central Mexico to Honduras
What is Mesoamerica?
Way of life of the earliest inhabitants of North America
What is nomadic hunter-gatherer?
Famous form of art of the Olmec
What are large stone heads?
Purpose of the Nazca Lines
What is link to water cult? ceremonial site?
The first major South American civilization centered in the Andes Mountains (900 to 200 B.C.)
Who are the Chavin?
A time period lasting from roughly 1.6 million to 10,000 B.C.
What is the Ice Age?
Name the three staple crops
What is corn, beans, and squash?
Famous form of art created by the Olmec
What are the big stone heads?
Strictly religious civilization of South America
Who are the Chavin?
A civilization on northern coast of Peru (A.D. 100 to 700) skilled in ceramic art
Who are the Moche?
Major city built by the Zapotecs
What is Monte Alban?
Location of the first American civilization
(in relation to a body of water)
What is the Gulf Coast?
Legacy of the Zapotec (3)
What is a hieroglyphic writing system, calendar based on the sun, 1st city builders?
Legacy of the Olmec
What are ritual ball games, temples....?
Beginning of agriculture in Peru
What is 3000 B.C.?
An early Mesoamerican civilization located in the Oaxaca Valley (SW Mexico)
What are the Zapotecs?