Section 1
People who move from place to place.
What is a nomad?
A highly developed society.
What is a civilization?
A sun dried mud brick.
What is adobe?
Builders of stone pyramids.
What are the Maya?
Cone shaped skin tents.
What are tepees?
Anasazi stone homes.
What are peublos?
The largest of the early American civilizations.
What are the Inca?
The land bridge Beringia now lies under this.
What is the Bering Straight?
An artifact loses this over time, showing its age.
What is radioactive carbon?
An Aztec city which was the largest city in the Americas.
What is Tenochtitlan?
The largest settlement of the Mound Builders.
What is Cahokia?
Their way of life depended on the irrigation channels they dug to carry river water into their fields.
What were the Hohokam?
The growth of culture happened primarily because of this advancement.
What is agriculture?
Europeans arrived to the Americans during this time period?
What is the late 1400s?
The capital city of of the Incan Empire.
What is Cuzco?
These people captured and tamed wild horses to become skilled riders.
Clothing was from seal skin, and they had to survive cold Artic weather.
This was a special Inca city devoted to religious ceremonies.
What was Machu Picchu?
This large animal was used by Native Americans for clothing, food, weapons, tools, and shelters.
What is the woolly mammoth?
Four earliest civilizations in order from oldest to most recent.
Olmec, Maya, Aztec, and Inca.
The Onondaga, the Seneca, the Mohawk, the Oneida, and the Cayuga.
The peoples of the Northwestern coast developed a way of life that used the resources of the forest and the sea, along with building wooden houses and canoes.
What is an eagle sitting on a cactus, with a snake in its beak?