The Maya
The Ancient Mayans developed the science of ___________________, calendar systems, and hieroglyphic writing.
astronomy
The Maya made their civilization along the _______________ peninsula.
Yucatan
Since the end of the __________ century, the migration of Europeans to the Americas has led to centuries of conflict and adjustment between Old and New World societies.
15th
According to the __________________ migration theory the people now known as American Indians originated in Asia 13,000-15,000 years ago.
Bering Strait
There are _______ U.S. Senators in America?
100
El Castillo, one of the main pyramids/temples of the Maya, is also known as the ________________.
castle
It is believed that various factors contributed to the decline of the Maya, including prolonged ____________, deforestation, soil erosion, warfare, and disease.
drought
The native population of North America at the time of first contact with _______________consisted of numerous tribes with their own languages, religious beliefs, and economic and social structures.
Europeans
_______________can change over time while laws are established and universal throughout the universe (laws of physics, etc…).
Theories
Planet earth is approximately _______ billion years old.
4.6
_____________, especially war captives, were frequently used as victims in Maya human sacrifice rituals.
Slaves
The Maya began their writing system during the second half of the Middle Preclassic period, c. _______ BCE.
300
When Europeans arrived, native peoples were tremendously diverse and differentiated by language, custom, political system, and _______________belief.
religious
There are roughly __________years of the American nation becoming independent of England.
249
The oldest city in America is _____________ in Florida.
The Maya _________________ writing system was a sophisticated combination of pictographs.
hieroglyphic
_________________ means "At the mouth of the well of the Itza" in the Maya language.
Chichen Itza
Native American did not consider themselves a single unified people with a common cultural or racial identity, nor did they possess a sense of __________________ as a continent or hemisphere.
America
13,000-15,000 years ago early people wandered into the western hemisphere by way of a land bridge that once joined the eastern reaches of Siberia to western _____________.
Alaska
Facebook was created during the year _________.
2004
250 AD – __________ AD is considered the peak of Mayan civilization.
900
The Maya civilization was a _____________________civilization that existed from antiquity to the early modern period (c.1800 BC – c. 1697 AD).
Mesoamerican
At the time of contact, the ________________Hemisphere was home to tens of millions of people, and within the present borders of the United States existed Indian societies based on agriculture, hunting, or fishing, with distinct languages, religious practices, and governments.
Western
The story of America begins with the early ________________ peoples of the Americas.
indigenous
The first baseball team in America was the ______________.
Cincinatti Red Stockings