Maya
Inca
Aztec
Early Peoples
North American Peoples
100

The Maya planted what main crop to farm?

What is maize?

100

The Inca Empire was either the biggest or largest of the ancient American civilizations

What is the biggest?

100

The greatest city in the Aztec Empire

What is Tenochtitlan?

100

The land bridge that early peoples traveled on to get to present-day Alaska

What is Beringia?

100

The reason one of the Hopewell burial grounds was called "The Great Serpent Mound"

What is because it looked like a giant snake?

200

What is a theocracy?

What is a society ruled by religious leaders?

200

The emperor descended from ____________

Who is the sun god?

200

The religious practice done to please the Aztec gods

What is human sacrifice?

200

People who study ancient peoples

What are archaeologists? 

200

The native peoples of the North

Who are the Inuit?

300

The Mayans used this type of science to keep accurate records.

What is astronomy?

300

The capital city of the Inca Empire

What is Cuzco?

300

The symbol Aztec warriors saw in Texcoco that made them think that particular place was their new home.

What is an eagle sitting on a cactus?

300

Before farming, early peoples did what to get food?

What is hunt and gather?

300

The two native tribes that formed federations, or governments that linked different groups, together

Who are the Iroquois and the Cherokee?

400

The Maya built their civilization in these present-day countries.

What are Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize?

400

The system of record keeping with strings

What is quipus?

400

One reason why the Aztec empire was so powerful

What is their military/army?

400

What early tools and weapons were made from 

What is bone?

400

The Hopi, Acoma, and Zuni peoples formed homes from this type of mud brick

What is Adobe?

500

The Maya civilization ended around this year.

What is 1100 AD?

500

A special city devoted to religious ceremonies

What is Machu Picchu?

500

The exact year the warriors "discovered" the island that was to be their new home

What is 1325?

500

Define carbon dating

What is measuring the amount of radioactive carbon that remains in something that was once alive?

500

The 4 corners where the Anasazi settled

Where are Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico?

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