Vocab1
A variety of corn
Maize
A person who moves from place to place
Nomad
Live around 1200 B.C. to 800 B.C. and create giant stone heads.
Olmec
A from of writing that uses symbols or pictures to represent things, ideas, and sounds.
Hieroglyphic
What helped nomadic peoples settle and farm?
Maize
A highly developed society
The study of the material remains of ancient peoples.
Archeology
What is the leading theory about how human beings first came to the Americas?
They crossed a land bridge from Asia to North America.
A tool, weapon, or other objects left behind by early peoples
Artifact
Why do scientists think people first migrated to the Americas?
To search for hunting grounds for food
A scientific method of ermining age of an artifact
Carbon Dating
Migration
This empire lived in the Andes Mountains
Inca
A narrow passage of water between two larger bodies of water
Strait
The Native American groups living in North America around 1492
Varied according to the environments in which they lived.
A people's shared values, beliefs, traditions, and behaviors.
Culture
To supply water to crops by artificial means
Irrigate
Which city was the center of the Aztec Empire?
Tenochtitlan
A society that is ruled by religious leaders
Theocracy
The main purpose of the Iroquois constitution as explained in the excerpt is to
Establish peace among the Five Nations
a government that links and unites different groups
Federation
A group of people who have a common ancestor
The Adena, Hopewell, and Mississippian cultures, and the Hohokam and Ancient Puebloans?
These cultures thrived and then faded before the arrival of Europeans.
A broad platform of float land cut into a slope
Terrace
How did the Iroquois peoples promote peace?
by forming a federation