Early Americans
This land bridge connected Asia and North America.
What is Beringia
Native Americans who built large earthen mounds are called these.
What are mound builders?
Tall carved stone monuments used by the Maya.
What are steles?
Capital city of the Aztec Empire.
What is Tenochtitlan?
Mountain range where the Inca Empire developed.
What is the Andes?
Early Native American groups were organized into these family-based communities.
What are tribes?
This famous snake-shaped mound is located in Ohio.
What is the Great Serpent Mound?
A major Mayan city located in Guatemala.
What is Tikal?
Political alliance that formed the Aztec Empire.
What is the Triple Alliance?
Knotted cord record system used by the Inca.
What is quipu?
Historians divide Native American societies into geographic regions called these.
What are culture areas?
Two early mound-building cultures were the Adena and this group.
What is Hopewell?
This famous Mayan city is known for a pyramid and observatory.
What is Chichen Itza?
Floating gardens used by the Aztecs for farming.
What are chinampas?
Inca messengers who carried messages across the empire.
What are chasquis?
Groups of related languages are called these.
What are language families?
This later mound-building culture built large cities like Cahokia.
What is Mississippian?
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This Maya calendar tracked long periods of time.
What is Long Count?
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This feathered serpent god was worshiped by the Aztecs.
What is Quetzalcoatl?
The Inca built thousands of miles of these for communication.
What are roads?
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The Ice Age made migration possible because sea levels were ______.
What is lower?
Native Americans living in forests of eastern North America were called this.
What are Eastern Woodlands Indians?
Sacred tree believed to connect heaven, earth, and the underworld.
What is the ceiba tree?
The Aztecs built their capital in this type of location.
What is a lake island?
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The Inca did not develop this common feature of most civilizations.
What is a written language?