Section 1
The First Americans
Section 2
The Mayan People
Vocabulary
Meeting People
Questions
100
As the Ice Age ended, people learned that seeds can grow into crops and can be eaten.
What did the people discover?
100
The Mayans learned the advantage was a year round source of water in swamps and sinkholes.
What is the main advantage of living in a tropical rain forest?
100
Huge sheets of ice.
What is glacier?
100
People who built a civilization in the steamy rain forests of the Yucatán Peninsula.
What/who is the Maya?
100
In A.D 1839 two Americans found an ancient city of the Maya in the Yucatán rain forests.
What was the country the Maya ruins were found?
200
The idea of farming began in Mesoamerica where the region's geography led to the event.
How did the agricultural/farming revolution begin in America?
200
The priests developed a 365-day calendar and they invented a written language of a type of hieroglyphics.
What/how did science and writing help the Mayan society?
200
A guess based on evidence.
What is estimate?
200
People who built a civilization who built a far reach trading empire near present day Vera Cruz, Mexico.
What/who is the Olmec?
200
The first people in America came when following the animals they were hunting to the land bridge.
How did the first Americans come to America?
300
One of the groups of Olmec who first built the city known as " Place of the Gods."
What is Teotihuacán?
300
Mayan priests offer humans to the god of rain and sunlight.
What is human sacrifice?
300
An agreement between people or nations to work together for help.
What is alliance?
300
A king of the city state of Tikal.
What/who is Jasaw Chan K'awiil I?
300
Early Americans learned to get bigger cobs of corn, they crossed corn with other grasses.
What is the technique to grow corn?
400
The ice froze and seas fell, an area of dry land was exposed between Asia and Alaska
What is a land bridge?
400
The Mayan settle in a place called "flat region."
What is Petén?
400
A place in the ground where Earth caves in and collects water.
What is sinkhole?
400
People who lived in the west coast south of Mesoamerica in the desert where Peru is today.
What/who is the Moche.
400
Religion became the core of Mayan life. The government were priests. The relationship between them was good.
What is the relationship between the government and religion?
500
The civilizations in America are the Olmec, Maya, and Moche.
What was America's first civilization?
500
In A.D 500s the Maya began to prosper. The next 300 years, the city-states collapsed.
What happened to the Maya?
500
A place in the ground where Earth caves in and collects water.To lay open.
What is expose?
500
The Moche replaced by another civilization.
What/who is the Inca?
500
The region geography has much rich volcanic soil and mild climate.
What was Mesoamerica's geography the idea of farming?
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